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
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday:
8:30am – Adoration9:15am – Mass
Wednesday:
6:30pm – Devotions to Our Lady of Lourdes and St Bernadette. Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament
7:00pm – Mass
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
Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat 8:30am - 9:15am
Wednesday 6:30pm – 7:00pm
Diocesan News
Pope Leo says restlessness is to be kept, not anesthetized. It is to be inhabited, then spent in schools and universities, in the fields and on the streets. [...]
Hospitality is a Catholic instinct – the belief that every person who walks through the door carries a dignity worth honouring. [...]
As we enter National Vocations Awareness Week, we speak to our new Director of Diaconate Vocations, Deacon David Dowling about his calling and vocation. [...]
The Gospel of this Sunday presents to us the amazing story of the multiplication of bread and Jesus feeding 5ooo men and probably equal number of women and children. This story occurs in all four gospels and there are six versions of it. [...]
The Benedictine tradition has held to seeking and pursing peace for fifteen centuries. The diplomacy of the Holy See does little more than conjugate them. [...]
