“We are fighting a battle whose outcome is assured”

In 1988, when the Berlin Wall was still in place and atheistic communism still seemed to hold the reins of power in the Soviet Empire, Bishop Hlinica (1) had this to say about the resistance born in Poland:

“Can we really win? Yes, we can! We're 100% sure we'll win, because the Mother of God says it in God's name: God wills it! We're fighting a battle with an assured outcome. God can't lose, so the Mother of God can't lose.

We are already victorious. When soldiers know that their generals are certain of the victory, they go into battle with joy and enthusiasm. We have this guarantee: we are the winners. We will only lose if we separate ourselves from God, from Christ.

Bishop Pavol Mária Hlinica

Excerpts from Fatima, Russia and Pope John Paul II by Timothy Tindal-Robertson, Ravengate Pr;  Revised edition (January 1, 1998)

(1) Pavol Mária Hnilica, S.J. was a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a titular bishop of Rusadir from 1964 until his death in 2006. Born in Uňatín in present-day Slovakia, Hnilica became a Jesuit priest in 1950, and in 1951 was secretly ordained a bishop during the communist rule in Czechoslovakia