But from my involvement, a few years ago, with a different ritual that requires a bishop, I'm assuming that Matthew's goal is to assemble or produce docuмents for the more-or-less local participants in that Chrismal Mass, for practical purposes, before they can rely on having Bp. Williamson present to provide detailed guidance.
The words that
I quoted above are not actually words originally written by
poche, contrary to what a reasonable reader might assume on returning to CathInfo after days of absence, and seeing them
without quoting in the immediately previous posting by
poche. Instead, they are the words of
AlligatorDicax from his previous posting in this same
topic (Mar 07, 2017, 3:16 pm), so the
first-person pronouns refer to A.D.
There's
no just excuse for a person with more than
10,000 postings on C.I. to
fail to use the C.I.
quoting feature whenever any 1 member (e.g.,
poche) posts words written by
any other member (e.g., AlligatorDicax), whether for criticism, praise, or ridicule.
Now back to the topic:
But  Docuмents, e.g.:  [....] · for an evaluation of whether, after distributing the assembled docuмents, various clerical & lay leaders of the Resistance ought to allow them to be kept as gifts by honored participants and members of the congregation, or [to be] retrieved to assemble a printed archive for "quite rare" Masses, rituals, or ceremonies, to make them available as needed by clerical & lay leaders of the Resistance.
I had not considered a
bulleted list too advanced a form of presentation for C.I. readers, but it obviously confused
poche. So immediately above, I edited out the first 2 bullets, leaving only 1, producing a single sentence
One of the purposes of the Chrismal [sic]mass is the the blessing of the holy oils to be used during the year when there is a need for the priest to give extreme unction.
Of course, that's "
one"--but not all--of the Church's uses for those oils.
I'm well aware of, and thus
not debating, the purpose of that
Mass. Plus the readers who were not aware of the oils' purposes when they loaded this
topic would
already have been educated by Matthew's summary in his
original posting:
[....] this [Chrismal] Mass?  It takes place on Holy Thursday [....]  and is quite rare [....]  During this Mass, the bishop consecrates the holy oils, including Holy Chrism and the Oil of the Catechumens.
In completing his final paragraph,
poche shows that, despite presumably having
native literacy in English, he needs to give additional attention in C.I. to his reading
comprehension (even if that additional attention reduces the daily rate at which he inflates his C.I.
postings count):
This is not just "gifts" to be kept by just anybody.  It is for the priests to be used [in] baptisms, confirmations, and the last rites.
Readers should now realize, from
my quote as I edited it in blue above, that
my 2 uses of the pronoun
them refer to "
Docuмents"--
not "
holy oils"--as what might be
allowed to be "
kept as gifts".
As Matthew wrote when creating this
topic, the Mass is "
quite rare",  so consider (here's some practice with a bulleted list for extra credit):
· the stature of Bp. Williamson as the senior
bishop providing sacraments to the Resistance;
· his advancing age; and
· the possibility that such a Mass won't soon return to that Resistance site (e.g., being celebrated instead at different Resistance sites over several years, in recognition of financial support, &c.).
Then consider that the
docuмents specific to that Mass might have at least
sentimental appeal as
gifts or mementos of that occasion for Bp. Williamson's visit. However, depending on the costs of printing, a frugal clerical or lay leader in the Resistance might sensibly decide that they
cost too much to produce to allow most of them to be
used only once, then taken home as mementos by the congregation.
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Note #: A sentence admittedly complicated by opening with a
gerund phrase and containing clauses combined via
coördinating conjunctions, but some of my blood is German.