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Hey everyone, today is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, so I thought it'd be

helpful to sort out those fake St. Francis quotes from the ones he actually did say.

So here's the first fake one.

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So it turns out St. Francis never said that, but it's still a good idea, something to let

that one slide.

But some of these fake St. Francis quotes, they actually cause spiritual harm because they

either encourage us to ignore the good things in our faith or they encourage us to trust

ourselves instead of God.

So a good example of former attitude can be seen in the granddaddy of all fake St. Francis

quotes.

Preach the Gospel always, if necessary, use words.

How many posters and religious ed classrooms have that one up?

The Mark Galley, the author of Francis of Assisi in his world writes, no biography written

within the first 200 years of Francis's death contains the saying, it's not likely that

a pithy quote like this would have been missed by as early as disciples.

Father Pat McCloskey, the Franciscan editor of St. Anthony Messenger writes,

I had been a Franciscan for 28 years and it earned a master's degree in Franciscan studies

before I heard the if necessary use words quote.

How is during when senior Kenneth Velo's homily at Cardinal Joseph Bernadine's funeral

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