History

Br Creos Mary Roman is an ex-addict of 20 years, (heroin,LSD amphetamines and benzodiazipines), who was baptised on 16th May 1998, thanks to the loving care and prayer of the Missionaries of Charity. Having a desire to help others in addiction, dissatisfied with the harm minimisation policies and convinced of abstinence based rehabilitation, he searched for an alternative and prayed for guidance.

After World Youth Day, Roma 2000, he stayed for two weeks at the "Communita Cenacolo" in Varazdin, Croatia.

Seeing that a combination of drug rehabilitation and religious life was not only possible but works extremely well (over 90% success rate) He approached Father Anthony Fisher OP (then the Episcopal Vicar for health in the Melbourne Archdiocese and now is auxillary Bishop for the Sydney Archdiocese), who had also visited such a community in Italy known as "Community Encounter"

Around the same time the Archdiocesan Drugs Task Force reported to the Archbishop
(then Dr. George Pell now Cardinal Pell in Sydney) that the establishment of a therapeutic community should be a long term priority for the Church and society. Creos saw these events as providential and started work on the Immaculate Heart Community.

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