J. Hanson at Catholic Phoenix discusses the judge murdered yesterday:
…He was committed to Christian truth. Or, as the person responsible for securing Judge Roll as a speaker this summer put it: “He truly passionately demonstrated truth.”
It also seems that Judge Roll passionately—and frequently—experienced Truth in the Holy Mass. One person I spoke with today described Judge Roll as a “daily communicant.” This fits with a memory I have of Judge’s Roll’s address this summer, specifically when he was discussing his appointment to the federal judiciary.
According to the story as I remember it, his family learned of the appointment when his wife answered the telephone one Saturday morning. It was the president. He asked her if he could speak to her husband. She told him that he couldn’t—John Roll was at church that morning. The president would need to call back after Mass.
Finally, I have in my notes one line that stuck out in Judge Roll’s talk this past summer. (Judge Roll probably said more noteworthy things but I’m a very bad note-taker.) He told us:
“God doesn’t bring you to a point in order to abandon you.”
We are being instructed here – even the most senseless and wicked acts are turned by God to His plan for the world. We have the freedom to choose evil, but God’s plan will not be turned from its course. A politician just doing her job, a little girl learning about life, a decent judge, a score of innocent people…all harmed by the wicked act of a depraved, pathetic young man…but his evil deed will not stand. Good will triumph…our task is to pull the lesson out of this and learn both that each day is a gift as well as doing the right thing, in each moment, is all we ever need do.
De Profundis
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication.
If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word.
My soul waits for the Lord more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord,
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption;
And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.
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