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
At the heart of Francis’s vision lie three interlocking ideas—interculturality, solidarity, and synodality. Those lines can be traced from Francis’s papacy along a line that now stretches into the future. [...]
This week on “Inside the Vatican", a roundtable discussion on the recent comments President Trump and other administration officials have made about Pope Leo, and the pope’s response given en route to his tour of four African countries. [...]
President Donald Trump posted an unprecedented attack on Pope Leo XIV on his social media platform, Truth Social, calling the Holy Father “WEAK on crime” and captive to the “Radical Left.” [...]
In his historic address to the U.S. Congress Pope Francis' boldly said “Why would anyone give weapons to people who use them for war? The answer is money, and the money is drenched in blood”. [...]
The most tempting frame — “Trump versus the pope” — is also the most misleading. It is a narrative that offers the clarity of a duel and the banality of a talk show. But it deforms what is happening. Leo has never named Trump. [...]
