Welcome
Greetings with the Love and Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ
Permit me to share a little bit of myself. I was born in the city of Mumbai, India with a Goan heritage. I joined the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. France de Sales (MSFS) and upon completing my seminary studies, was ordained a priest on 4 May 1991. After a decade of appointments as assistant priest in a parish and a high school teacher, I was sent to the assist the diocese of Parramatta in 2000. Since then, I have been assigned to several parishes as an assistant, priest-in-charge, administrator and from June 15, 2023, as parish priest of St. Bernadette, Lalor Park.
I have been welcomed by this parish community and hoping to have a fruitful ministry here at St. Bernadette’s.
With peace and friendship in God’s mission
- Fr. Clifford D’souza, MSFS
Weekly Mass Times & Reconciliation
Weekday Masses
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday:
8:30am – Adoration9:15am – Mass
Tuesday:
6:30pm – Devotions to Our Lady of Lourdes and St Bernadette. Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament
Weekend Masses
Saturday Vigil 5:30pm
Sunday 8:30am & 10:00am
Reconciliation
Saturday 9:45am – 10:15am, 5:00pm – 5:30pm
Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament
Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat 8:30am - 9:15am
Tuesday 6:30pm – 7:00pm
Diocesan News
Returning to the parish where the first African Mass took place in 2016, the celebration strengthened belonging among communities in Parramatta, Sydney, Broken Bay and Wollongong. [...]
In the course of the talks, we stumbled upon a distinction that is at the heart of a divide between two ways of doing theology, but shouldn't be. [...]
The Adoration Chapel at St Canice’s in Katoomba, housed in a room next to the sanctuary in the main church building, has a steady stream of people using it through the day and night. [...]
Generations of parishioners gathered to celebrate the gift of life - from young adults marking their 18th and 21st birthdays to couples celebrating decades of marriage, and parishioners who had reached their 90s and beyond. [...]
Attention has become a commodity that platforms measure, hold, and sell, so the answer is to safeguard it rather than capture it, trusting the reader’s intelligence. [...]
