Beatitudes Church
Beatitudes Church Gift Shop
Travel Tip
If you wish to stock up on liquor during your trip, the gift shop at the Mount of Beatitudes church (left on the Sermon on the Mount photo), run by the Franciscans (another Roman Catholic order), has a wide selection. In fact, well over half of the inventory at the Beatitudes Church gift shop is booze. I asked the clerk how she justifies hawking whiskey and vodka (bottom right of above) at a church, especially one that supposedly commemorates Jesus' Beatitudes, and she replied, "People can't drink inside the church because we don't sell flasks."
"Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’' (Matthew 21:12-13)
If you wish to stock up on liquor during your trip, the gift shop at the Mount of Beatitudes church (left on the Sermon on the Mount photo), run by the Franciscans (another Roman Catholic order), has a wide selection. In fact, well over half of the inventory at the Beatitudes Church gift shop is booze. I asked the clerk how she justifies hawking whiskey and vodka (bottom right of above) at a church, especially one that supposedly commemorates Jesus' Beatitudes, and she replied, "People can't drink inside the church because we don't sell flasks."
"Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’' (Matthew 21:12-13)