For this purpose neither horoscopes nor fortune-telling is useful. What is needed is prayer , authentic prayer, which should always accompany a life decision made in conformity with God s law. During this year, which in preparation for the Great Jubilee is dedicated in a particular way to the Holy Spirit, may our insistent prayer be directed to him. He is invoked as the Spirit of counsel and wisdom . No one knows our future better than he or is more capable of guiding our steps in the right direction.
Criteria are essential to good planning.
But let us take care not to reduce everything to material questions. Let us not limit ourselves to technology and bureaucracy. If we wish to make truly human plans, in our programmes we must include the range of great moral and spiritual values. We must also strive to look at those beside us, especially those dependent on us or at any rate affected by our decisions, always considering them as persons and never as numbers or things. In a word, let us organize our lives personal and community in a way not inspired by selfishness but by love.