Well. I would rather have fish than bull like this. Whoever said that meatless Fridays --which are restricted now to Lent and Advent--was ever anything except a matter of discipline?
All the people under you including my wife who thought it was a matter of her salvation if she were to eat meat.
Let me guess, that was her interpretation of it, not the churches, like you have never encouraged your people to worship Mary, but most of them do, and you say, they must not have known the will of the church, or they would know better.
"These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgences." Col. 2:23