{"id":1169,"date":"2025-10-27T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/?page_id=1169"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:31:13","slug":"2-the-pigeons-and-the-sack-of-grain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/fsi\/miracles\/2-the-pigeons-and-the-sack-of-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: The Pigeons and the Sack of Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter had hardened the road to the mill. Isidore carried his scant wheat, the fruit of many days, when he came upon a flock of pigeons pecking at frozen ground. Compassion, trained by prayer, is immediate: he loosed the mouth of the sack and poured out precious grain until the birds were fed. Every prudent instinct objected\u2014yet charity prevailed. At the mill a paradox awaited him: the sack was found as full as before, and the grinding yielded beyond the expected measure. The story catechises the heart: mercy does not impoverish those who give from love; Providence is creative, not miserly. The multiplication does not mock thrift; it baptises thrift with generosity. Feed the hungry, and heaven repays in the coin of sufficiency and joy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord Jesus, form in me a ready compassion. Grant that I may not withhold good when it is in my power to act. Saint Isidore, obtain for me a generous heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scripture:<\/strong> Proverbs 19:17; Luke 6:38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter had hardened the road to the mill. Isidore carried his scant wheat, the fruit of many days, when he came upon a flock of pigeons pecking at frozen ground. Compassion, trained by prayer, is immediate: he loosed the mouth of the sack and poured out precious grain until the birds were fed. Every prudent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1161,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169\/revisions\/1170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holy-see.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}