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
The simple message is to be engaged in our world and our community, without losing sight of the fact that our calling is to seek first the Reign of God, to seek the way of God, a way of being that strives to imitate Jesus. [...]
Pope Leo XIV’s positions on the United Nations and multilateral reform trace back decades to his years as Augustinian prior general, when he chose engagement over criticism, the table over denunciation. [...]
Existence itself proves God’s unearned love, which reaches even history’s monsters and today’s perpetrators, challenging us, amid deep polarisation, to accept that God loves those we refuse to. [...]
What started as a humble memorial three years ago to honour people who have died while experiencing homelessness has now grown into a local team from St Patrick’s Cathedral Parish hoping to launch a NSW-first shelter trial at the cathedral hall. [...]
