PSEUDO St. Clare of Assisi: "We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become," etc.

"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others."

     We have but "five known writings" from the pen of St. Clare of Assisi:  "her Rule and four letters to Blessed Agnes of Prague.  The authenticity of the other writings—the Testament, Blessing, and the Letter to Ermentrude of Bruges—has been contested; they may be the conceptions of authors in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries" ("Introduction" to the section on Clare of Assisi in Francis and Clare:  the complete works, translation and introduction by Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap. and Ignatius C. Brady, O.F.M., Classics of Western spirituality (New York & Mahwah:  Paulist Press, 1982), 174).  But in none of those eight does anything like this passage appear.  Indeed, only recently was it composed and then mistakenly or maybe even falsely attributed to her.
     Where does it come from?   Undoubtedly the scholar Ilia Delio, "Clare of Assisi and the mysticism of motherhood," Franciscans at Prayer, ed. Timothy J. Johnson, Medieval Franciscans 4 (Leiden and Boston:  Brill, 2007), 54, 47 (31-62):

"This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others" (47).

"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.  Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ; rather, it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation" (54).

Clearly someone mistook someone's notes on Delio for the words of St. Clare herself.
     One of those who did was apparently the now doubly notorious David Haas, who, on 9 July 2020, apologized for having "caused great harm to a variety of people."  Hopefully this will now kill the song quicker than its intrinsic demerits would have otherwise.

     5 September 2021:  I'm now noticing that I wasn't the first to catch this gaffe.  See, for example, francisjon on 6 May 2019, FATHERHORTON of Fauxtations on 11 August 2019, and so forth.