ABOUT THE BOOK
CHILDREN’S DAILY PRAYER UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS is a scriptural and liturgical prayer book for each day of the school year. It is prepared annually for use in the southern hemisphere by students in years 3 – 6. The prayer is designed to be led by students.

Following the Church's year, this prayer book enables students:

• to pray through all the liturgical seasons
• to celebrate the major feasts of the liturgical year
• to meet saints, old and new.
  

CHILDREN’S DAILY PRAYER UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS also includes:

• days from other Christian and multi-faith traditions:
• Orthodox Easter
• Saints of the Lebanese Church
• Pesach, Yom Kippur, Shavuot (Jewish faith)
• Ramadan (Muslim faith)

• the commemoration of prophets and peacemakers of our time some of which are:
• Mum Shirl
• Weary Dunlop
• Caroline Chisholm
• Dame Whina Cooper (NZ)
• Sister Irene McCormack
• Pope John XXIII
• Fr Ted Kennedy
• prayers for days in the civic calendars for Australia and New Zealand
• Waitangi Day (NZ)
• National Harmony Day
• Anzac Day
• National Sorry Day
• significant days from world calendars some of which are:
• International Red Cross Day
• World Day for Peace
• International Day for the World's Indigenous People
• World Environment Day
• World Day for Water

For ease of use, CHILDREN’S DAILY PRAYER UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS is published each year. This makes it possible to have the prayers and readings right there on the right day and the right date; it is like a diary. This user-friendly nature of the prayerbook means that students can lead the prayer without confusion.