The Angels...

Much is made about the angels in the Nativity story.  At first, it was the Angel of the Lord--then it became the whole heavenly host.  The word "angel" literally means "messenger."  They are not objects--but verbs--in the sense that they are active principles of God.  Or, as I like to say--extensions of the Holy Spirit like light rays from the sun.  They mediate a presence of God, which was exactly what the Shepherds experience which made them "sore afraid." (KJV)

We give up on angels in our day and age.  Wasn't that a part of antiquity to explain supernatural phenomena?  Yet, I still say that we do know when God's presence presses upon us--like perfume that suddenly passes under our noses--and for me that conveys the presence of God which may be viewed as angelic. 

All we do know is that something happened which Luke tries to tell in his story.  Throughout the Gospels, angels come and go--and for me, the angel appears at the tomb with the message of the resurrection.  All of us are called to be messengers in our own right. The revelation, the message of the angels did not stop with them or should it with us.  God ahead--and be an angel!