Can I abstain from meat on a Thursday or Saturday instead of a Friday?

[Kennes90]

I was wondering if me and my wife could abstain from meat on a Thursday or Saturday instead of a Friday? We are moving away and my coworkers are having a going away party for us and they prepared meat for the food. None of my other co workers are Catholic so they did not know. Me and my wife always abstain from meat on Fridays and I was wondering if it would be acceptable to switch to a Thursday or Saturday this one time as they are throwing the party for us and we don’t want to insult them by not eating the food they made? Thank you.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

Code of Canon Law:

Can. 1245 Without prejudice to the right of diocesan bishops mentioned in can. 87, for a just cause and according to the prescripts of the diocesan bishop, a pastor can grant in individual cases a dispensation from the obligation of observing a feast day or a day of penance or can grant a commutation of the obligation into other pious works.

You can ask your pastor for a dispensation.