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
Diane Montagna’s July 16 interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah is worth a serious reading, and I have given it one. His Eminence’s spiritual seriousness is not in question — the man who wrote against the idols of an easy Christianity has earned an attentive hearing. [...]
Each year, two First Nation students travel to Rome to study on the Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship—in partnership with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Australian Embassy to the Holy See—to represent their cultures on the world stage. [...]
It is this fact that healthcare is someone caring for another that sets the context for the appropriate use of technology in caring for the needs of the person who seeks care. [...]
Pope Leo XIV’s late-July remarks on his American roots and the Ceuta crisis reframe migration itself: stability without justice becomes containment, peace without dignity more than silence at a checkpoint, and every border a test of whom a society will see. [...]
Amid renewed debate over the traditional Latin Mass, the deeper issue is not Latin versus the vernacular but whether liturgy strengthens communion, since across languages and traditions Catholics share one Christ in a Eucharist meant to create unity. [...]
