John Krambuhl
@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social
EdD🍎| Spiritual Exercises | Metacognition | Organizational Learning | Cor ad cor loquitur
Mother of God and of the poor, help of the defenseless, intercede for those of us who are unaware of our own poverty, so that we may see and respond to those who live their poverty daily, and thus find a remedy for our own blindness and illusions of self-sufficiency.
“The trouble arises when our connections to other minds become a little too seamless, and we start to loose track of where our own understanding ends and another begins.”
Tania Lombrozo@handle.invalid · 6d agoA short adapted excerpt from WHY WE ASK WHY was published in The Atlantic this morning! So excited to share this in advance of the book's publication on Oct 6! 😊 📕 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
A student who doesn't understand, knows they don't understand, and *wants* to understand is a student who is ready to learn and it's a beautiful thing.
Everybody read Toni Morrison. If novels are not your thing, at the very least go get Source of Self-Regard, which is amazing.
Do I dare Disturb the universe? - T.S. Eliot (Prufrock)
Children should be educated for love, so that their desire is not to grasp everything but to give generously to others —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Our common poverty is not to be shunned, but embraced through a communion of love.
Let us be the Church of ‘kenōsis’, of self-emptying, of humility, that hopes in the glory of the Risen Christ —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese…”
John Krambuhl@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social · 3w agoI enjoyed this! Mary Oliver’s poems as spiritual exercises, as namings of what is most real, most valuable, as ways of surviving and coping with trauma, as devotions for loving attention to the natural world. youtu.be/hCyw9F4t7QQ?...
“The invitation always in any mission driven endeavor is to create a culture of affectionate awe, where each person, having received a palpable dose of attention and focus care, will choose to be that notice and care for others.“ – Greg Boyle, SJ 
John Krambuhl@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social · last mo.Reflecting on some wisdom from this book on *cura apostolica*: It’s not about you, it’s about the mission. It’s not about you, it’s about the people. It’s not about you, it’s about participating in the Triune God’s loving redemption of human history.
"The living is ever now, but the knowledge to guide living, the willingness to follow knowledge, the sensitive adaptation that vigorously and joyously executes the will's decisions, these belong to the future, and when the future is present, there will be beyond it ... steeper demands."
For God there are no categories of human beings —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
I enjoyed this! Mary Oliver’s poems as spiritual exercises, as namings of what is most real, most valuable, as ways of surviving and coping with trauma, as devotions for loving attention to the natural world. youtu.be/hCyw9F4t7QQ?...
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
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Audience request for a co-authored paper by @catholickungfu.bsky.social and @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social on the underlined topic below from Fr. Doran. Would be so cool!
We are not all going to think alike in this Church, but we should all equally act for God, for Christ —St Oscar Romero, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
“Psychic conversion enables a person, among other things, to approach some understanding of the aesthetic form of God‘s revelation in Christ Jesus and of the dramatic exchange of freedoms that it demands.” - Fr. Doran
Reflecting on some wisdom from this book on *cura apostolica*: It’s not about you, it’s about the mission. It’s not about you, it’s about the people. It’s not about you, it’s about participating in the Triune God’s loving redemption of human history.
“…to await with serenity for the coherence of truth itself to bring to light the underlying harmony of the manifold whose parts successively engage one’s attention. Spontaneously such thought moves towards synthesis…” - Fr. Lonergan, *Grace and Freedom* (p. 144)
John Krambuhl@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social · last yr.…as I internalize Lonergan’s models I find life to be experienced in a way akin to being moved by Mozart’s music. Complexity simplified and harmonized. A redeeming atmosphere to live within. Though this atmosphere is fleeting and in need of ongoing renewal.
I am not the boss; l am not the one in charge; I am not an authority that imposes itself. I want to be God’s servant and yours —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
“Note that heuristic has the same root as Eureka.” - Lonergan, in a footnote
Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
Let us not attribute to God’s will what is really the fruit of our laziness. Let us not blame God for unjust inequalities. Let us not fault God for human underdevelopment. God wants none of these —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
On October 24 at @setonhall.bsky.social, the Center for Catholic Studies (of which my Lonergan Institute is a part) is hosting an event called "Magnifica Humanitas & Our Shared Future" as part of its "Ethics and Values in the Era of AI" series. QR code in image takes you to registration page.
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn
