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
The death of a Pope is always an event of great significance for Catholics. Therefore, we will mourn for nine days as prescribed. Until his burial, however, we want to honour our Holy Father and pray for him. But how should we remember him? Perhaps you will allow me to add my personal thoughts here. [...]
Abraham bargained with his Lord, pleading that Sodom be saved if there be but 50 just men in the town. He talks the Lord down to 10 just men. The Lord promises: ‘I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.’ We too can plead with the Lord to avoid the wanton destruction of innocent life. [...]
How do we recover a shared sense of the moral order that is built into the universe? I am not sure, but dusting off the idea of a natural law might allow us to at least find a shared moral vocabulary again. [...]
As a young girl growing up in Bondi just after the Second World War, there were two things that loomed large in Sr Ailsa Mackinnon’s life – her tight-knit Catholic family and the beach. [...]
Fr Timothy (Tim) Hogan, former assistant priest at Toongabbie, Kingswood and Blacktown, has been remembered as an icon of God’s love for us just as we are. Fr Tim passed away on Sunday 6 July, aged 81. [...]
