RLP Holiday - A Christmas Ghost Story: A Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas! This week we reflect upon the second greatest Christmas story of all time, namely, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. Why do Advent and Christmas lend themselves to ghost stories? In a ghost story something seemingly insignificant happens. However, after the experience the world looks differently, feels differently. So, it is with Christmas. One, like the three wise men who came to visit Jesus, cannot have the encounter and return home unchanged.