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Secretariat Minutes

Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

January 18, 2003

The Secretariat meeting came to order January 18, 2003 at The Pastoral Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at 10:00 a.m.  After Group Reunion, Ray Haefele, Lay Director, brought the meeting to order.

Those present at the meeting included Ray Haefele, Annie Lombardo, Patti Vincent, José Silva, Ricardo Ortíz, Refugio Fuentes, Jerónimo Martínez, Francisco Rodríguez, Marco Ocaña, Javier Dueñez, Vicky Pérez, Rosa DeLoera, Charlie Humphrey, George Bukowinski, Fr. David Lafferty, Linda Winterscheidt, Don Vincent, Jesús Cipres, Kathe Jackson, Agustin Paramo, Angelita Lucero, Adolph Lucero, Wayne Willson,  Catalina Alvarez, Rocio Ayala, Juan Espinosa, Sister Elsa Galdeano, Marco Millán, Andrea Millán.

The minutes of the April meeting were reviewed. There were no corrections. George Bukowinski  made a motion to approve the minutes and  Patti Vincent seconded.  Motion passed.

Patty Vincent presented the Treasurer’s  report and as of January 17, 2003  there was a net balance of  $13,618.51   Linda Winterscheidt made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report and  Wayne Willson seconded.  Motion passed.  

Pre-Cursillo Rep English, Wayne Willson, reported that he has 2 applications for men and 2  for women for the next English Cursillo #76. 

Pre-Cursillo Rep Spanish, José Luis Ortega, was not present to report.

Three day Rep Spanish, Rocio Ayala, wanted to thank everyone for the support and trust given to her, as a 3-day rep, at the last Secretariat meeting.  She reported that the team meeting for the next Spanish Cursillo #77 will be in Woodward on April 4-6, 2003.  Father Wolf will be the Spiritual Director for Cursillo #77 that will take place in Woodward June 5-8, 2002.  Luz Armendariz will be the Coordinator and Catalina Alvarez the Assistant Coordinator.

Three day Rep Spanish, Gerónimo Martínez, reported that for the next Spanish Cursillo #77, Juan Espinosa will be the Coordinator and Alejandro Mascote the Assistant Coordinator.  At this point he doesn’t have a Spiritual Director but will report at the next Secretariat meeting.  Geronimo made a motion to present a list of names to be added to the Assistant Coordinators pool for the Spanish Cursillo.  The names were: Jesus Cipres and  Agustin Paramo.  Father Lafferty seconded.  Motion passed. 

Three day Rep. English, Irene Haefele, was not present to report but sent word with George Bukowinski that team formation for Cursillo #76 will take place in Ponca City on February 15, 2003.  The Spiritual Directors for Cursillo #76 will be Fr. Wolf, Fr. Jacobi and Deacon Jerome Caplinger.  Ray suggested  that we should continue to develop English Cursillos to the Northern part of the State.

Three day Rep. English, George Bukowinski, reported that Charlie Humphrey will be the next Coordinator for the men Cursillo #76 in Ponca City.  The Spiritual Director will be Fr. Lafferty and Deacon Jim Breazile.

Post Cursillo Rep Spanish, Jesús Cipres, hasn’t received the letter that was to be translated into Spanish to send to the new candidates about the 4^th day.

Ray suggested that we need to develop a list of location and time of the Spanish Schools of Leaders.  George Bukowinski will collect that information and post it in the newsletter.  Vicky Pérez requested approval  from the Secretariat to move one of the Schools of Leaders from Purcell to Norman and to continue meeting every Thursday from 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.  There has been two Schools of Leaders operating in Purcell, one directed by Sister Elsa and the other directed by Fr. Salvador Ortíz.  Fr. Ortíz left for Mexico 6 months ago and the group from that school is looking for a new Spiritual Director.   Ray suggested Vicky to talk to the people from the other School to come up with one School in the area instead of two.

There was a discussion of whether the School of Leaders from Duncan had been approved by the Secretariat or not.  Fr. Lafferty made a motion for the Secretariat to approve the School of Leaders in Duncan.  Don Vincent seconded.  Motion passed.

After lunch the meeting was called back to order at 12:50 p.m.

Old Business

Future Cursillos:

Cursillo #77 Spanish, Men Memorial Weekend, May 23-25, Women June 5-8, St. Peters, Woodward

Cursillo #78 Spanish, Men Labor day Weekend, August 29-Sept. 1, Women Sept 11-14

Cursillo #79 English, Men October 2-5, Women October 16-19, St. Eugene, Weatherford

The English 1^st School of Leaders took place at the Pastoral Center on January 4, 2003.  It had an attendance of 23 people.  It followed the guidelines of the Leaders Manual.  The Leaders Manual was broken into different topics for the school.  The topic for every school is posted on the OKC Cursillo Web page.

During the next few weeks the Cursillo newsletter should be finished.  It has a lot of information about the Ultreyas, School of Leaders, etc.  One thing that the Secretariat is asking the Ultreya reps to do is to come up with a list of active Cursillistas to better update the mailing list for the newsletter.  Ray will send the list of Cursillistas that he has to Sister Elsa so that she can name proof the Spanish list before mailing is done.

The Secretariat group revising the By-laws met for the first time.  They decided to start from scratch and review the by-laws from the beginning.  By August the group should have some report for everyone to read.  The changes on the by-laws are to take place starting January 2005.

New Business  

The National Encounter will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 17-20, 2003.  You can download an application form from the Cursillo web page.  There will be a copy of an application on the newsletter.

Patti Vincent made a motion to follow last year’s practice on the National Encounter, for the Secretariat to cover the registration of the voting members of the Secretariat. Wayne Willson seconded.  Motion passed.

Ray made a motion to affirm Kathe Jackson to be the 4^th day rep for English.  Fr. Lafferty seconded.  Motion passed.