Delores Dufner

Delores Dufner
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Short Name: Delores Dufner
Full Name: Dufner, Delores, 1939-
Birth Year: 1939

Benedictine Sister Delores Dufner is one of the best-known hymn writers in the church today. More than 20 different publishers in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia have included her texts in their hymnals and hymn collections. The popular hymn anthology, Sing a New Church, contains her distinctive, beautifully crafted texts set to familiar hymn tunes.

Sister Delores frequently receives commissions to write hymn texts for special occasions and needs. In 1994 she completed a commission for the libretto, Choose Life (Uvacharta Bachayim), an opera/oratorio in commemoration of the Jewish holocaust, with music by Mona Lyn Reese.

In 1996 she was one of five winners in an international English-language hymn competition to update Mary's image in song. In the October 2000 issue of The Hymn, she was named as one of three outstanding Roman Catholic hymn text writers since Vatican II.

Sister Delores was liturgy coordinator for her religious community for six years and director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota, for 11 years. A member of The Hymn Society’s executive committee, she holds master’s degrees in liturgical music and liturgical studies.

Currently, Sister Delores is liturgy director for St. Benedict Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

--http://www.ocp.org/artists/

Featured Article:
Sent Forth By God's Blessing: Roman Catholic Hymn Text Writers after Vatican II by Alan J. Hommerding (from The Hymn)


Texts by Delores Dufner (47)sort iconAsInstances
[All Creation Clap Your Hands]Delores Dufner (Author)2
As rain from the clouds will your word come to earthDelores Dufner (Author)3
Awake, O sleeper, rise from death (Dufner)Delores Dufner (Author)2
[Be Blest, O God]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[Be Forever Praised]Delores Dufner (Author)2
Come to me, all pilgrims thirstyDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)2
[Do You Who Follow Understand]Delores Dufner (Author)2
Friends in faith who follow JesusDelores Dufner, b. 1939 (Author)3
[From Deepest Need We Cry]Delores Dufner (Author)2
From the dawning of creation, God was present in the WordDelores Dufner (Author)2
[God of Beauty, We Sing]Delores Dufner (Author)2
God, you call us to this placeDelores Dufner, b. 1939 (Author)4
[God, You Made the Earth and Heavens]Delores Dufner (Author)2
In labor all creation groansDelores Dufner, b. 1939 (Author)3
[In You No Beauty]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[Let All the Hills Be Leveled]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[Let Desert Wasteland Now Rejoice]Delores Dufner (Author)2
Let the hungry come to meSr. Delores Dufner, OSB (Author)2
Light shone in darkness at the world's creationDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)2
[Make Your Home in Me]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[May Christ Console Your Grieving Heart]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[My Heart Rejoices in My God]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[O Arise, My Beloved]Delores Dufner (Author)2
O Christ, what can it mean for usDelores Dufner (Author)3
[O Glorify the Lord with Me]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[O Lord, My Shepherd]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[O Lowly Lamb of God Most High]Delores Dufner (Author)2
O sons and daughters, let us singDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Translator (sts. 2-5))1
O wheat, whose crushing was for breadDelores Dufner (Author)2
Sing of the sun from darkness appearingDelores Dufner (Author)2
[Stand Firm in Faith]Delores Dufner (Author)2
[Star of the Morning]Delores Dufner (Author)2
Summoned by the God who made usDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)3
The reign of God, like farmer's fieldDelores Dufner (Author)4
[The Spirit, Brooding]Delores Dufner (Author)2
The Spirit sends us forth to serveDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)7
[The Sun, Unswerving]Delores Dufner (Author)2
The Word of God is source and seedDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)3
Three holy days enfold us nowDelores Dufner (Author)5
To be your presence is our mission hereDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)2
[Unless a Grain of Wheat Dies]Delores Dufner (Author)2
We come with joy in Jesus ChristDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)2
[We Glory in the Cross] (Dufner)Delores Dufner (Author)2
What feast of love is offered hereDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)3
What feast of love is offered hereDelores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 (Author)2
When evening falls and labors cease Delores Dufner (Author)2
When from bondage we are summonedDelores Dufner (Author)3