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 – 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

Part One: In Memory of Pope Francis

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. [...]

Fr Frank Brennan’s Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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. [...]

Is natural law making a comeback?

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. [...]

Sr Ailsa Mackinnon: the surfing sister who remains a servant of hope

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. [...]

Vale Fr Tim Hogan: a priest ‘tested in the furnace’ and found worthy 

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. [...]

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