May

	The Colisée Pepsi is to be the starting point for a 5.1 km Eucharistic procession through Quebec City June 19 in conjunction with the International Eucharistic Congress being held in the city from June 15-22. Cardinal Marc Ouellet and the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress organizers are inviting the public to take part.. Some 15,000 people are expected to take part in the procession, which will be led by a vehicle carrying the Blessed Sacrament, papal legate Jozef Tomko and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the congress president. The vehicle will be baptized Thabor, after Mount Thabor in Palestine.
	The sun rises over the Quebec Citadel, the fortress that overlooks the Plains of Abraham, where the closing mass of the International Eucharistic Congress is to be held June 22. The congress coincides with the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City and the 350th anniversary of Bishop Francois de Laval's appointment as the first bishop of Canada.
	Ed Bianchi, Indigenous Rights Program Coordinator for KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, is flanked by Archbishop Fred Hiltz, left, who is primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Ordinary (Anglican) Peter Coffin at the launch March 2 of the ''Remembering the Children' Church and Aboriginal leaders' tour to promote the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools. Bianchi sent emails to KAIROS supporters May 22 noting that the Assembly of First Nations is encouraging churches to write to Prime minister Stephen Harper regarding the lack of consultation on the government's residential school apology to be presented by Harper June 11. Repeated requests by the AFN to be involved in the process of drafting the apology to victims of abuse in residential schools have been ignored.
	Songbirds, including a variety of warblers, mingle with resident birds in a conservation area in Ottawa in May before contuining their journey north in June
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	Red tulips flourish alongside the Peace Tower of the Parliament Building in Ottawa during the city's annual Tulip Festival from May 2-19. Organizers say that each spring over 600,000 people from North America, Europe and Asia make over a million visits to the festival, the largest tulip festival in the world.

	Red tulips flourish alongside the Peace Tower of the Parliament Building in Ottawa during the city's annual Tulip Festival from May 2-19. Organizers say that each spring over 600,000 people from North America, Europe and Asia make over a million visits to the festival, the largest tulip festival in the world.
	The spire of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Ottawa is accentuated by a bed of orange tulips during the city's annual Tulip Festival from May 2-19.
	Some grow 'em ... some wear 'em Erich Bondy, the first secretary at the Honduran Embassy arrives at the Tulip Ball at the CanadianTulip Festival in Ottawa wearing a hat made of tulips. The recommended attire for the event, described as "an upscale evening of glamorous, Hollywood-style fun," was "fabulous party wear" open to imagination and interpretation.
	Joe Gunn, former English sector director of the social affairs office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been appointed Executive Director of Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ), a Christian national organization that promotes public justice in Canada. It recently moved its head office from Toronto to Ottawa. "We are very excited about Joe’s vision for CPJ," said Janet Wesselius, board chair, in announcing his appointment April 29. "His extensive knowledge of Canadian justice issues will complement the in-depth research CPJ has already done, augmenting CPJ’s strong and unique public justice presence in Canadian policy debates." In the photo, Gunn was speaking as a panelist at the group's annual meeting in Ottawa in 2006.
	Delegates to the Lutheran-Anglican National Worship Conference in Montreal June 25-28 will make an excursion to the historic 'Old City' of Quebec where they'll visit Holy Trinity Cathedral, the first Anglican cathedral built outside the British Isles. It was rededicated in 2004, 200 years after its completion.
	Eucharistic Congress officials, Cardinal Marc Ouellet (president), Sr. Doris Lamontagne (assistant secretary general), Mgr. Jean Picher (secretary general), Richard Frenette (events coordinator) pose April 24 with an artist's conception of the altar that will be used for the outdoor mass on the Plains of Abraham at the end of the week-long congress in Quebec City June 22. The altar is in the shape of a ship with a large sail and depicts the vessel, Don de Dieu (Gift of God), that Samuel de Champlain arrived in when he founded Quebec City 400 years ago. An artist's conception of the altar that will be used for the outdoor mass on the Plains of Abraham at the end of the week-long Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City June 22. The altar is in the shape of a ship with a large sail and depicts the vessel, Don de Dieu (Gift of God), that Samuel de Champlain arrived in when he founded Quebec City 400 years ago.
	A statue of Blessed Francois de Laval, Canada's first bishop, was unveiled in old Quebec in 1908 -- the 200th anniversary of his death. Nearby is Notre-Dame de Quebec Basilica-Cathedral. The Quebec diocese is the oldest in North America. The International Eucharistic Congress from June 15-22 coincides with the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City and the 350th anniversary of Laval's appointment.
Photos of Old Quebec (HDR process)