THE PARABLE OF CATFISH

Pedrito and Jose were inseparable friends in their early teens. The barrio called them kambal(twins) because wherever one was, the other was invariably there, too.
They were neighbors so they where together from early morning deep into the night. Oftentimes, they slept in each other's house. Being of the same age, they were classmate in the barrio school. They even had plans to attend first year high school in town together.
It was only natural that on Sundays, Pedrito and Jose went together to church in town. They wore their Sunday best(maong, t-shirt and rubber shoes) even if they took a shortcut through the ricefields.
Taking the regular road, the distance to town would be seven kilometers. By traversing a more direct route behind the cluster of huts and using the rice paddy dikes, the distance was shortened by half. This was called pagtatawid as it involved crossing a stretch of ricefields and bamboo groves as well as streams.
In one of their pagtatawid, on their way to church, they saw a putikan(mud paddle) or a lubluban(carabao's wallowing hole) in the middle of a deserted field. The hole was teeming with hito(fresh water catfish). Either someone used it as a stocking area to increase the weight of the catfish or the farmer missed out because the putikan was out of the usual pathway.
Meeting such an opportunity, one would gather the catch. Ideally the two boys should go to church first and then retrieve the catch on the way back. The problem was that someone else might discover and harvest the fish while they were in church.
Finally, they thought of a solution calling for their rare separation. Pedrito would stay, catch all the fish, go home to the barrio and divide the harvest between them. Jose would proceed to town, attend church and pray fortif two of them. They would then have the best of both worlds.
So Pedrito removed his shoes and Sunday pants and caught all the fish. He then fashioned a reed and secured each fish through the gills for easy transport. In the barrio, Pedrito dutifully divided the catch equally according to number and even size. Hating kapatid is the barrio term, signifying equitable division or even erring to the advantage of the other.
Meanwhile, Jose heard mass and prayed for the two of them. But while in church, he kept wondering whether Pedrito would really divide the fish equitably, even suspecting that Pedrito might try to claim the bigger ones and give him the smaller fish only.

THE QUESTION IS RAISED:
Who is more religious, Pedrito who was not able to go to church but was just in his actuations, or Jose who heard mass but suspected ill-will?

TRY TO REFLECT.