The Recovering Choir Director

The NLM’s Arlene Oost-Zinner recently conducted an interview with Fr. McDonald, the current pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Macon, Georgia and author of the Southern Orders blog. Among the topics touched on are: his seminary formation in the 1970s, his longtime lack of access to music proper to the Roman Rite, a thoughtful comparison of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Mass, his own pastoral approach in moving towards liturgical orthopraxis at his current parish. It’s a necessarily lengthy interview due to the many insights shared; pastors, liturgists, and music directors would do especially well to read it.