The contemplative community the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Missionary Teaching Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – and yet the same grace-filled impact each has on the communities entrusted to them. “I think that God always wanted the convent on that hill. He had kept it aside for all eternity for the sisters to build their convent. It will give great glory to God for many years, for we will die, but others will come.” Mother María Elena Prioress of the Sacred Heart, OCD, This story follows the lives of the contemplative sisters at the convent of Our Lady Queen of the Angels, the miracle, which led to the establishment of their convent, and the miracles granted to them and the community through their life of prayer. “The heaviest cross in La Morán neighborhood is most of all broken families. Very often the mother has to be the mother and the father … It is common that mothers are violent with their children … Sometimes the children come to us, very ill-treated with marks of the beating they’ve given them.” Mother Trinidad Arce, Superior of the Missionary Teaching Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. The La Morán neighborhood was originally established in 1970 by a Fr. Francisco Amor, looking for a place in the barrios where the Church could be present; over time there grew a little school, a dispensary and the Church. Later the government declared the settlement as a non-residential area and demolished everything except the school. This story follows the arrival of the sisters to a neighborhood, which was a rubbish dump: eight families had settled there in shacks made of cardboard, tin sheets, rags. The Missionary Teaching Sisters of the Immaculate Conception today work teaching the 170 children of the over twelve hundred families in the barrio enabling the children an education and a chance to escape the bitter poverty.