She's Boston College's new associate minister for liturgical arts, who before arriving at BC this fall, sang and played piano at Masses for shoppers and Boston Marathon runners at the Catholic chapel in the Prudential Center. JoJo and Anne Marie David are one couple who indeed do make beautiful music together. Considering their shared experience of the past two years, in which JoJo David overcame long odds to triumph over cancer, the songs of praise they offer to God are all the more moving.
Every day is gone into with gratitude.
It's been a full year of recovery, and a lot of changes happening. Serendipitous is the right word. In the course of treatment for the disease, discovered in 1998 after he lost his singing voice, JoJo underwent nine bouts of chemotherapy and 28 radiation treatments in addition to the bone-marrow transplant. Friends formed e-mail prayer circles in his behalf, and staged a benefit concert at St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill, where he and Anne Marie were active in music ministry. We're doing what we love, and doing it together.