明治学園中学高等学校では、朝8:25になると「朝のお祈り」が放送されます。「朝のお祈り」では、教師が日替わりで、様々な話をした後、皆で主の祈りを唱えます。その内容は、宗教行事にまつわる話、社会情勢に関する話、日々生活している中で感じた話など、示唆に富んだ内容です。１～２週間に１回は、ネイティブの先生がすべて英語で話し主の祈りも英語で唱える日もあります。
12月1日には、フェリシアーノ先生によるサンタクロースに関する話でした。以下、その内容を紹介します。

Good morning everyone. It’s time for the morning prayer.
（‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’の曲が流れる　）
Do you know this song?
It’s called ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’.
The song is about children waiting for Santa to come. They know that he is watching, so they are being good, so that Santa will give them a present.
The song says ‘He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!”
However, is it okay to be good only when someone is watching? We should try to be good even when other people aren’t watching us. True goodness comes from inside of you. Every day we can choose to be kind, help others, be honest and study hard. These choices might not always be easy, but they are important.

During this Christmas season, let’s remember to be good,
not because someone is watching us, but because we want to be good people and do our best every day.
Now, let us recite the lords prayer.

Our Father,
who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen