Article: Innovative liturgist keeps eye on the details, down to the last amen.(Ministries)(liturgy director of St. Philomena Church, Renette Scott )

Renette Scott, liturgy director of St. Philomena Church here, sees herself as a lifelong student. She credits this intellectual curiosity as the force behind the innovative liturgies she delivers to this large and multicultural parish.

Scott has directed liturgy at St. Philomena, one of the most racially diverse parishes in the United States, since 1988, giving her plenty of time to nurture the love for liturgy "that was in my bones."

Raised in the close-knit Creole culture of New Orleans, Scott, 66, said her devoutly Catholic mother instilled in her an early love of church traditions and rituals.

"It's my mother who formed me and shaped me and ...

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