Diocese of Texas Secretariat Meeting Notes
August 16, 2003

Meeting began with opening prayer and Group Reunion.  The Minutes of the 5/24/03 meeting were approved with minor changes.  The Lay Director clarified that people who attend weekends are “candidates” before the weekend begins and “participants” once they begin their Cursillo weekend.

Treasurer’s Report:
1.	Report approved as submitted.
2.	Reminders to submit the convocational asking will be sent to each convocational representative twice yearly.  The amount requested is currently $150.00 annually, although the Austin convocation has chosen to give $300.00 yearly.

Registrar’s Report:
1.	Clarified that no sponsors are allowed to serve as service palanca before Sunday at lunch.
2.	Reported that weekends 200 and 201 were full (200 had two extras and 201 had two last-
minute cancellations)

Chaining and Philosophy Report:
1.	All future Rector(a)s will be asked to sign a pledge/contract agreeing to abide by NEC Library/Diocese of Texas Secretariat guidelines.
2.	The Secretariat decided in May, 2000 to assign a Secretariat member to each Cursillo team to attend meetings and to be present on the weekend to serve as a resource on matters of policy.  This action has never been implemented; we will discuss how to implement it at our nect meeting.

NECC Report:
1.	NECC will be in SanDiego in October
2.	Secretariat approved paying for our delegate’s registration, airfare and accomodations.

Cursillo “Family Reunion” – The Acceptable Year of The Lord: Jan 23-25, 2004
1.	4 people have registered to date
2.	Kyla wants each convocation to prepare a tabletop or easel display and a 5-minute oral presentation about an “action” in our convocation.  I suggested that we might do Kairos.
3.	The registration application is on the texascursillo.org website.
4.	The team has been formed 
5.	Would our convocation like to provide 1 set of 100 pieces of palanca for table palanca?

Rector Training
1.	There will be 5 Cursillo weekends in 2004
2.	3 Rector(a)s have been selected
3.	Training will be 9/13/03 at St. Peter’s in Brenham
4.	The CD to be distributed to Rector(a)s is being revised.  Revisions will be completed in time for training.

Diocesan Data Base
1.	This is progressing slowly; she has not received any information from our convocation so far.

Respectfully Submitted., 
Carol Kirchem Price
Austin Convocation Secretariat Representative