Delores Dufner
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DELORES DUFNER, OSB, is a member of St. Benedict’s
Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, a Benedictine women’s
community of about 320 members. Sister Delores holds Master's Degrees
in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. She is an active member
of, and occasional presenter for, The Hymn Society in the United
States and Canada, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians,
and the Benedictine Musicians of the Americas.
Sister Delores was full-time director of the Office of Worship
for the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota from 1979-1989. She subsequently
worked as a liturgical music consultant for the Diocese of Ballarat,
Victoria in southeast Australia for fifteen months. Since then she
has been writing hymn and motet texts which have a broad ecumenical
appeal and are contracted or licensed by 34 publishers in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. In 1994 Sing a
New Church, a collection of forty-eight of her hymn texts set
to public domain melodies, was published by Oregon Catholic Press.
In March 2004 an anthology of seventy-nine of her hymns, The
Glimmer of Glory in Song, became available from GIA Publications.
Sister Delores has received more than thirty commissions to write
hymn and motet texts for special occasions and needs. In June of
2002 she was one of four recipients of the Spirit and Truth Award
granted by the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy in recognition
of her leadership and vision in the ongoing renewal of Catholic
liturgy. On July 29, 2005, she will receive the Fr. Lawrence Heiman
Citation for outstanding contributions in the area of church music
and liturgy at the Summer Commencement Exercises in Rensselaer,
Indiana.