Delores Dufner, OSB.
St. Benedict’s Monastery (320) 363-7176 (w)
104 Chapel Lane (320) 363-7050 (h)
St. Joseph, MN 56374-0220

Delores Dufner is a Benedictine Sister from St. Joseph, Minnesota. She as Master's Degrees in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. From 1979 through 1989 Sister Delores served as the Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota. From September 1990 through November of 1991 she worked as a Liturgical Music Consultant for the Diocese of Ballarat, Victoria in southeast Australia. Since that time, she has been writing inclusive language hymn texts for the liturgy. Her hymn texts are contracted with eight major publishers of church music in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.