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
Following recent flash flooding, Caritas Nepal is ramping up its aid to be able to reach up to 4,000 families. Caritas Internationalis Secretary General calls on the global community to “commit to do what is necessary to care for our common home.” [...]
The General Secretariat of the Synod today released the Final Report of Study Group No. 6 on the review, from a synodal and missionary perspective, of the documents on relations between bishops, consecrated life, and ecclesial associations [...]
As part of our commitment to Safeguarding, the Diocese recognises that the road to healing is a long one that requires dedicated resourcing and support. Lorena Portocarrero is the Diocese’s Healing and Support Counsellor. She sat with us to describe her work. [...]
One of the Church’s foremost experts on Catholic Social Thought and its importance in the age of artificial intelligence will deliver a public lecture in Parramatta on 13 October. [...]
Dr D'Cunha is right that clericalism is a wound, that it has cost the Church credibility it may not recover in my lifetime, and that several of her practical proposals are overdue. I want to say that plainly before I say the rest, because the rest is a serious disagreement. [...]
