Vice: Envy
Petition: Your Kingdom Come
Gift: Piety
Virtue: Meekness / Generous Kindness
Beatitude: Inherit the Earth
And he who prays, “let your kingdom come” “asks for the common salvation of all.” He receives, accordingly, “the spirit of piety” which “enkindles generous kindness in him,” so that he himself arrives at the same possession of eternal inheritance which he desires his neighbor to achieve.” These first two rungs illustrate this pattern: each petition is for a gift; each gift produces in the soul a virtue that supplants the corresponding vice and so paves the way for the accompanying beatitude.
Material from Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen and Stephen R. Spencer, editors, The Sermon on the Mount: Through the Centuries from the Early Church to John Paul II (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2007) 73.