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Why do you think the festivals are part of the old covenant? Let's get that out the way and then I'll explain how the holy days apply under the new covenant. No...I don't play that game. I asked you if you kept these specific events. If you do you have to keep these in accordance with the Law.

Of course I keep them in accordance with the law. These days are the Lord Jesus Christ's days:

Lev 23:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.

So yes, the Lord, Jesus Christ, tells his followers to observe his days. That's a "law" certainly. But that's NOT the law that Paul is talking about.

But because you've been taught error by a traditional church for so long you believe (apparently) that anything the Lord said BEFORE the book of Matthew is a "law" that is done away with. We can see the fruit of this heretical teaching in the modern church today...all kinds of perversions being done in the name of Christ.

Christ's holy days PREDATE any covenants and they exist throughout the covenants.

Look at this for example:

Gen 1:14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

Assuming that you've ever been taught this you've thought that "seasons" means summer, fall winter and spring. But this is a gross and purposeful mistranslation of what the Hebrew word really means. It really means "appointed times" and this is ALWAYS used to refer to God's holy days. In other words, part of the reason for the creation of planets and stars was to make sure people could observe HIS holy days. The Good News Bible gets it right:

(GNB) Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;

The creation of the weekly sabbath is even clearer:

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Gen 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

So God built into the structure of our reality AND in our holy scriptures a confirmation that HIS holy days and sabbaths are supposed to be honored.

You've been deceived into disobeying God and instead are observing (likely) days that God never made, sanctioned or approved of...and in fact condemns in the strongest terms.

As far as HOW the holy days are observed that varies depending on the administration and the covenant. For example the spreading of blood on the lintel at Passover was never repeated in scripture although various accounts of the Passover are seen in scripture.

Jesus Christ himself told his followers how to observe the Passover under the new covenant. He created a special cereemony for Passover on the dawning of Abib 14, when he at e the Passover with his disciples. They first had a meal...but AFTER the meal he instituted the new covenant Passover ceremony which includes eating bread, wine and footwashing. These were specific actions that he told his disciples to do on Passover.

Other holy days (and by the way all of God's holy days are either directly mentioned in scripture or directly alluded to) are observed with the principles that early Christian like Paul set forth.

For example concerning the days of unleavened bread Paul wrote this:

1Co 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. >

Again what your church has taught you is deception. Paul SPECIFICALLY tells his mostly gentile Christian congregation to KEEP the feast...and that IS the greek word for one of God's feasts...heorte. He is specifically telling them they need to observe God's feast days! But he teaches them that there's a real spiritual application there as well.

As far as sacrifices ALL animal and grain sacrifices were part of the old covenant and for sure were obviated by Christ under the new covenant. This is explained VERY clearly in Hebrews chapter 8 and especially Hebrews 9. But here's the thing: In Hebrews it's VERY specific about what is different between the old covenant and the new covenant....and any change or alteration of the Sabbath or God's holy days is EVER mentioned.

You've been taught error in a world that is gripped in the hand of Satan. He has fooled many into NOT observing the holy days of Jesus Christ and instead worshipping on days created by men that have roots in ancient peoples and societies that worshipped demons and not God.