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
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John Muir once asked, “Why are Christians so reluctant to let animals into their stingy heaven?” The same might be said of us as churches: why are we so reluctant sometimes to welcome others into God’s mercy and to our communion tables? We certainly can’t use Jesus as our model in doing this. Looking at the Gospels, there is never a recorded incident where Jesus laid down some moral or religious condition to sit down at table with him. Our model is rather the well-meaning disciples of Jesus, who, like us, tried to protect Jesus by sheltering him from various… [...]
In a world searching for hope, a Western Sydney community of more than 130 volunteers unites to bring a message Sydney needs right now [...]
In our Gospel today, we reach the end of our three-week meditation on St Matthew's chapter 13, the third of Christ's discourses on the "Kingdom parables". The first two of our parables today follow a similar pattern: something of value is found, its value surpasses all else they possess, and everything is sacrificed in order to possess it. [...]
