The Words of Deacon Boniface Perdjert
of Port Keats

God did not begin to take an interest in people with the incarnation of the Son, nor with Abraham. Our people existed here in Australia thousands of years before Abraham. In all that time God was with our people. God worked through our culture. God was saving us despite human weakness. We were being prepared for the day when God would see the features of Aboriginals in the image of the Son. So we must recognise, we must use the things of God that are in our culture. We must use them in God's service. If we do not do this, our faith and our service are shallow. They are a pretending. They belong to some one else, not to us. We are called to love God and each other with whole mind, heart and soul. So we must give ourselves to God as an Aboriginal people. This is what God wants or God would not have made us what we are.