A Filipina nun who worked for the Apostleship of the Sea—Manila died on January 20, 2025. She was 73.
Sr. Lucita Saligumba, a member of the Sisters of Jesus Good Shepherd, or "Pastorelle Sisters," worked with the Apostleship of the Sea—Manila for two years in 2007-2008.
She rendered different services for the well-being of seafarers. She used to visit people on ships and in hospitals, assisting in organizing Masses for seafarers and everyday fun experiences in the Apostleship of the Sea office.
She died on January 20, 2025.
Lucita was born on December 3, 1951, in Tagbilaran-Bohol, Philippines, and was baptized in the parish dedicated to St. Joseph on December 25, 1941.
She entered the congregation on February 10, 1978, in the community of Imus and in the novitiate on July 1, 1978, in Quezon City.
She made her first profession on October 7, 1980, in Quezon City, and in 1981 she was sent to the community of Parañaque, where she demonstrated her creativity in the apostolate among young people and later carried out pastoral care as a religion teacher in the school of Imus.
She made her perpetual profession on October 6, 1986, in Quezon City.
After her perpetual profession, she returned to the school of Imus and dedicated herself to teaching religion until 1988.
Sr. Lucita was a joyful and kind-hearted person who adapted well to community life and work environments.
Creative in the apostolate, she knows how to promote ecclesial communion in the ministry and is enterprising in addressing the needs and resources necessary for the apostolate.
She diligently cultivates her spiritual life through concrete choices. She manifests special attention to the less privileged, embodying the compassionate heart of a shepherdess, a friend, and a sister to many people.
In San Fernando-La Unión, in addition to serving the realities of poverty, she was an instrument of communion because she organized medical and dental services throughout the diocese, trying to get medical personnel of various religious denominations to collaborate. She is a beautiful and kind presence in the community and the ministry. She is grateful for the people she met in the apostolate and the numerous expressions of care they showed her.
Sr. Lucita lives in an intense pastoral ministry that embraces various apostolic fields in places on the periphery and also carries out the service of government in the Province.
At different times she worked in 1988 in Tondo; in 1991 in San Fernando-La Unión in the diocesan Caritas; in 1994 in Quezon City in the coordination of the catechesis of the diocese; in 1998 in Alcantara Romblon; in 1999 in pastoral care; in 2005 in Quezon City in the Apostolatus Maris; in 2008 in San Fernando-La Unión in the diocesan Caritas; in 2014 in Alaminos for the basic ecclesial communities; in 2015 in Imus in diocesan youth ministry; in 2016 at the Mt. Carmel Shrine Parish; and in 2019 in the community of Banna.
During her illness, Sr. Lucita openly accepted chemotherapy and other treatments necessary for her condition.
During this time, she intensified her spiritual care and lived the sacraments of reconciliation and the anointing of the sick as a gift to prepare for the encounter with the Good Shepherd.
“The sisters testify how she embraced her apostolate of suffering with gentleness,” said Sr. Aminta Sarmiento Puentes, Superior General of the congregation.
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