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
Caritas Australia has welcomed five new Diocesan Directors in 2026, strengthening its nationwide network of local Catholic leaders who help bring the Church's mission of compassion, justice and solidarity to life in communities across Australia. [...]
Read together, Magnifica Humanitas and Dilexit Nos suggest AI’s future depends not on regulation alone but on the conversion of the heart, the one human depth no machine can automate. [...]
St Francis’ famed humility led him to awe at his Creator and companionship with creation. Such solidarity deepens our relationships and expands our sense of home. [...]
Pope Leo has a gift for putting into their rightful place issues that concern humanity. He has taken war off the politics page and AI off the science pages and put them under the heading of humanity. [...]
Drawing on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Cardinal Parolin warns that handing justice to opaque AI systems empties law of accountability. [...]
