"Do not be afraid" (Mt 10:31). Three times the invitation to trust has resounded in the proclamation of today’s Gospel. The Lord Jesus, the Risen One, repeats it to us today, He repeats it to humanity [...] Do not be afraid! [...] Around us, dear brothers and sisters, and sometimes even inside us, lurks the allure of what is relative and changeable, of what, in its temporariness, does not commit us fully. Truth thus gives way to relativism of opinions. In such a context, believers, sustained by the power of the Holy Spirit, are called to be a critical presence to every incompleteness and error, to serve the truth without hesitation and fear. This is a debt that the Church especially owes to the younger generations, whose natural aspiration to a new world can find a fulfilling answer only in Christ, the only authentic "novelty" in history. [...] Today is not a time to hide the Gospel, but to "proclaim it from the rooftops." (St. John Paul II, Pastoral visit, Foligno, Homily, 20 June 1993)