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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because it's on a calendar doesn't mean that:

1) People understand the significance.  
2) People know your personal level of adherence.

Also, let's please not pretend that this only happens to religious minorities in the US.  The percentage of Americans that can list the Holy Days of Obligation for Catholics must be exceptionally small.  We should all maintain broad understanding of other cultures/religions, but it's unreasonable to expect global awareness.  It's okay for people to have to advocate for themselves.[/quote]

Catholics who observe the Holy Days of Obligation (that aren't already federal holidays because the federal calendar is built on Christianity) are a religious minority in the United States. [/quote]

Passover isn't equivalent to a Holy Day of Obligation.  Holy Days, other than Christmas, are days when observant Catholics go to work and school, and fit in a mass that might last 45 minutes.  Scheduling a work dinner on a Holy Day of Obligation would be fine.

Passover is, as I understand it, the Holiest point of the year other than the High Holy Days, and there is an expectation of gathering with family.  That's more like Christmas than other Catholic holidays (with Good Friday and Easter, the holiest days of the Catholic year being like the High Holy Days).

-- Observant Catholic who would know not to schedule things on the first two nights of Passover, but might forget to look up the date and accidentally do so, and would appreciate someone telling me so I could move it.  [/quote]

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