Dear Friends,  The saints remind of us our destiny—that we strive by the grace of God and their good prayers to be in the future where they now are.  But the saints also remind us of our past. The saints we celebrate in August remind us of our local past, our diocesan history.  August Fourth we remember St. John Vianney, a French priest of humble birth who, after ordination was sent to the little town of Ars. For the next 41 years he served as the parish priest: celebrating mass, hearing confessions, and teaching the Catholic Faith. He had the gift of reading hearts, of being able to tell penitents…