St Bernadette's Catholic Church

Lalor Park Parish

St Bernadette's
Catholic Church

Lalor Park Parish

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 – Rosary & Exposition9:15am – 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
Saturday 5:00pm – 5:30pm

Diocesan News

“There’s No Part of You That God Rejects”: Holy Thursday in a Prison Chapel

  Holy Thursday marks a liturgical threshold—a moment suspended between love and betrayal, intimacy and abandonment, service and sacrifice. This year, I crossed that threshold in an unexpected place: a prison chapel, where I accompanied Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, as he celebrated a Holy Thursday liturgy with thirty-two incarcerated men. I entered the Parklea Correctional Centre that morning with quiet apprehension—not fear, but an awareness of the weight of the stories held within those walls. The chapel itself bore witness to transformation: crucifixes and religious artworks, carved and painted by inmates over the years, lined the… [...]

Devotion to the Displaced

As the United States stops aid, Christian volunteers step up to counter a humanitarian crisis in Burma. [...]

Thunder in the Dark: A First Encounter with the Office of Tenebrae 

Tenebrae might initially seem like a distant monastic rite – steeped in symbolism but removed from contemporary spiritual life. Yet within the walls of the Cathedral, its impact was immediate and profound, providing a deeply moving encounter with the Passion of Christ.  [...]

Bishop Vincent’s Homily for Maundy Thursday 2025

This year, we hear the account of the Passion from the Gospel of St Luke who sees Jesus from the perspective of an outsider. He is at pains to point out that the way Jesus carried out his mission was fundamentally counter-cultural. [...]

Looking Deeper: The Women at the Cross

While the other Evangelists mention women at a distance, it is John alone who notes that the women—Mary, his mother; her sister, Mary the wife of Clopas; and Mary from Magdala were standing near the cross, perhaps under the cross. And they were courageous, and they stood there because perfect love casts out fear.  [...]

Contact

Address:

Parish Office: 14 Wheeler St, Lalor Park NSW 2147, Australia

Parish Church: 10 Gardenia Grove, Lalor Park NSW 2147, Australia

Phone:
(02) 9672 4037

Parish Office Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm