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
Pope Leo XIV said something that should be unremarkable but isn't: "Saint Vincent de Paul demonstrated that prayer and social justice are not merely complementary but are in fact inseparable." [...]
Yet a crisis of truth inevitably becomes a crisis of authority. If truth is reduced to personal conviction, a fundamental question follows: Who has the authority to tell me what is true? [...]
Catholic Outlook, the news site of the Diocese of Parramatta, has been recognised at the 2026 Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) awards, which were held in New Zealand recently. [...]
We often hear the message of the Two Commandments of Love: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind; then love your neighbor as yourself" (Mt 22:37) [...]
