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
We learned more about how Pope Leo XIV intends to implement the reforms his predecessor introduced when the Vatican released a "thematic framework" for the meeting this autumn of the presidents of the world's episcopal conferences, as well as their Eastern rite counterparts. [...]
Artificial intelligence promises extraordinary advances in diagnosis, prediction, workflow management, and clinical decision support. Yet beneath the excitement lies a deeper question: what kind of Catholic healthcare system are we becoming? [...]
What is important to do is every day to stop and reflect where our journey of faith is heading. The Lord has inculcated His values within us by means of the Scripture and our church tradition. It's now up to us as adults in the faith to walk along our own individual roads of spirituality. [...]
Following the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, Jesuit Mission Australia prepared the attached media release outlining Jesuit Mission Australia's support for the coordinated humanitarian response with the Xavier Network. [...]
