The observance is ok I think, as long it is not out of duty or a desire to feel like you're more spiritual (there's no value in it if that is the motive.)

How is it that so early on St. Paul reminded the church NOT to get ensnared by regulations Christ died to free them from, yet so many churches (Catholics just being one example) have just added new regulations and kept on adding and adding new ones. Oops! It all could have been avoided had they read Colossians (and Galatians and Romans…)

Colossians 2:13-17, 20-23

13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

20 Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: 21 Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!? 22 These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

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