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RULES 

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The life at the Mary Immaculate Residence orients towards the creation of a familiar ambience where harmory and the search of a common good facilitate living together.

For this, several  rules are necessary that the young ladies who live in the Residence must accept. Religious and young ladies feel called to a common task; by which they have to commit themselves in an active and responsible participation. Likewise, it requires the collaboration and interest of the parents and guardians, to carry out  the educative and formative task proper of the residence from a true complementariety.   


 DIRECTION

In dialogue with the Superior and the sisters of the team, the Director assumes the responsibility of the activity and the organization of the Residence.

  • Directs, moves, coordinates and supervises the function of the same.
  • Convokes and presides meetings
  • Admits and excludes residents
 ORGANS OF PARTICIPATION
 
  COUNCIL of DIRECTION
 Consists of:
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  • Superior
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  • Directress
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  • Religious who collaborates directly in the Residence
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  • Floor Representatives
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  • Youth coordinator of each department
  •  Parent- Representative
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  • Representative from ex-residents
 FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DIRECTION
  • To dialogue about the problems and proposals
  • Supervise the activities and carry out the schedule of the same
  • To meet together at least three times in a school year
 FLOOR REPRESENTATIVES
They are elected by democratic election among their companions. 
 FUNCTIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES
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  • To represent her floor
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  • To take the problems and proposals to the Council of Direction
  •  Inform the companions of the many matters discussed in the Council of Direction  
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  • To be active motivators
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  • Assumes with responsibility her task
 GENERAL ASSEMBLIES
They will be held once or twice a year and will be attended by the same, all the residents.
 DEPARTMENTS

They are channels in which the young ladies integrate in them, may express their creativity, program activities and foster all that favor the educative process.

 Different DEPARTMENTS in EXISTENCE
  • Education in Faith
  • Leisure and free time
  • Social Pastoral
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  • Missions
LIVING TOGETHER

 

Its priority objective is the life of the Residence,  by which we endeavor to foster positive attitudes that may help in the creation of an educative climate:

  • To welcome all, manifests in the service and help
  • Mutual respect, dialogue, sincerity, loyalty, privacy, flexibility, friendship
  • Interest and free and responsible participation, collaborating in the organization of the activities
  • A climate of serenity and silence that favors work and study.
  • In this family ambience, when a resident gets sick will advise the sister in charge of her floor
  • Silence will be observes especially from........ until ............
 
 Likewise we avoid

    Individualism and lack of attention to the persons with whom we live with : companions and sisters
  • Lack of respect to the persons with whom we share life in the Residence
  • Lack of collaboration in the activities.
  • Irresponsibilities in work and study.
 SCHEDULE
  • The Residence opens from..... in the morning and closes at ...in the evening; Sundays and Holidays will be opened at .... in the morning and will be closed at ..... in the evening.
     
           
  • Telephone service starts at .... in the morning and ends at .... in the evening.
  • The telephone was invented to shorten distances not to " lengthen conversations ", thus, you must not use it more than 10 minutes, your companion needs it, too.
 DEPARTURES
  • As a regulation, it is not permitted to sleep outside the Residence. For this, the permission of the parents and the knowledge of the Director are required.
  • When the resident may absent herself from the Residence for a few days or may sleep outside the Residence, she will communicate before to the sister in charge and fills out the form of leave. 
 SERVICE AND COLLABORATION
  • The residents will collaborate by turns in several common dependences.
  • The dining room, if for a justified reason one may not be able to do this task, she has to look for a substitute.

       To put in order common dependences : TV room, study room , wash room, etc 

  •  Each resident is responsible for the order and cleanliness of her room, as in the washing of her clothes.
 BEDROOMS
  • To avoid those that may destroy the walls
  • Whatever damage may be charge to whoever may have carried it out  
     
    An outsider of the Residence cannot go up to the bedrooms except in a concrete circumstances, previously authorized by the  responsible sister.  The common salas are available to receive friends. 
  • The key of the bedrooms may be left in the reception upon leaving the Residence.
  • Leaving for vacations, the bedroom has to be left clean and tidy.
 DINING ROOM
  • To come in proper attire.
     
  • Whenever one may eat outside, she may write down or inform the person in the portery. 
  • Food is not served outside the fixed schedule if there is no advice previously done and without just motive. 
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  • Extraordinary diets are not allowed in meals.
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    When one needs a sandwich for a just motive, it is necessary to inform in advance notice
  • It is not permitted to get dishes from the dining room and take them to the bedrooms.
 DINING ROOM SCHEDULE

WORKDAYS

HOLIDAYS

 

    Breakfast :..........

 

 Breakfast: .........

Lunch: ........... 

 

Lunch: .............

  

Dinner : .........

 

Dinner: ............

 

 RENEWAL OF PLACE
  1. At the end of the school year, residents who may desire to renew the place, may solicit it from the Director, accomplishing the corresponding printed matters
  2. The course is understood between  the 1st October to 30th of June
  3. To renew the place one  may take into account:
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  5. The attitudes taken along the course with regards to the Residence and its function.
  6. The disposition for living together.
  7. The attendance in the activities and the active collaboration of the same.
     
 MOTIVES FOR EXCLUSION FROM THE RESIDENCE
  • Irresponsibilty to the study.
  • Repetitive lacks of collaboration and discipline.
  • To pass the night outside the Residence without the permission of the Director and knowledge of the parents.
  • A continued negative critical attitude that impedes the cordial relation and the mutual respect that demands among the residents.

      Whatever other act that may be against the fundamental objectives of  the center

 VACATIONS
  •         On Christmas and Holy Week, with a just reason, the residents may be able to    remain in the Residence.
  • In summer vacations, for those residents who may renew the space, they may ask for a place where they may leave their things.  

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