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As I write this, angels are sweeping the worlds of pop songs, bookshops and conferences. According to tradition, one of the angels’ big jobs is to help young people make friends of death. But this involves a challenge, which I thought of when I had to speak in Los Angeles (the City of Angels) on the day their Christmas decorations went up. Every street glittered with brilliant Hollywood-style Christmas figures, including angels.

I issued this challenge: ‘My subject is “How to Prepare a Celtic Christmas”. Since almost nothing is known about Celtic Christmases, I can’t give you a shopping list of things to get. I can simply point out two ways you can approach Christmas. The first way is to spend time and money putting up the world’s best angel figures, such as you see around you. The second way is so to live that you can actually encounter an angel for real, as did Mary, Joseph and the shepherds at Jesus’ birth. In order to do this, you have to let go of the world of glitter and enter into stillness…’

I know people who have seen an angel. In fact, according to Hope MacDonald, who saw an angel with her husband which saved them from getting a divorce, one in six people she questioned had seen or felt an angel presence. It is never too early to develop sensitivity to the unseen world.

Become still. Become aware of the presences around you, within you. Hold imaginary conversations with your guardian angel, the angel who will one day escort you into the worlds beyond this.