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
Wars have always caused needless suffering, destruction and death. But 81 years ago today, the hell of war reached a new all-time immoral low when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing over 70,000. [...]
Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, the Bishop of Parramatta along with the family, clergy and the people of the Diocese of Parramatta mourn the death of Fr Eugene Stockton, who died peacefully yesterday, Wednesday 5 August 2026. [...]
We worship a God that took on the material. The Spirit of the Risen Jesus is constantly calling us to wonder at the “dearest freshness deep down things”. [...]
“My married life is living life in the Catholic Church – a call to unity, a call to faithfulness, a call to love beyond the limits of one's endurance and ego, truly living for the good of the other," says Arts Calub. [...]
Pope Leo says restlessness is to be kept, not anesthetized. It is to be inhabited, then spent in schools and universities, in the fields and on the streets. [...]
