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During the course of this coming week, the Church will celebrate two special feastdays – that of the archangels Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael on Monday, and that of the guardian angels on Thursday – which makes it, as the headline suggests, a very good week for angels.

There are, of course, some differences between the archangels and the guardian angels, but space will not allow an examination of those. We can, however, give some brief thought to what and angel is and does in general, and in that contemplation there may be some inspiration to be found for us. This is true espec...