Vincent Michael Rizzotto

VINCENT MICHAEL RIZZOTTO

Born: September 9, 1931
Deceased: January 17, 2021

Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, 2001-2006

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Origin/meaning

Bishop Rizzotto realizes that in the care of God's less fortunate children, before anything else can be done to provide the tools of self-help, those in need must first be fed: fed physically, emotionally and spiritually in order to achieve and advance. The two arms extending a golden bowl of white rice to those in need reflects these needs. This graphic representation becomes more symbolically significant when one realizes that Bishop Rizzotto's name is a variant of the Italian word for a seasoned rice dish which is risotto, thus representing that by his acceptance to receive the fullness of Christ's priesthood, as a bishop, Bishop Rizzotto is willing to be given so completely that he is giving himself to those in need ... feeding them with rice ... feeding them with himself ... and feeding them, as a priest and bishop, with the greatest gift to humankind, the nourishment of Christ in the most holy Eucharist.

The chief is taken from the arms of the Archdiocese of Galveston- Houston which Bishop Rizzotto has served for his entire priestly ministry.

For his motto, Bishop Rizzotto has adopted the phrase "Make Us One in Christ." By the use of this phrase, His Excellency expresses the underlying reality of the Eucharist: that we all become the one body of Christ in Christ, and that as one who is now called to shepherd God's people, it is the work of the bishop to bridge all that divides one from another, to bring all to one in the Christ who is the Savior of the world.

The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.

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