PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Many members of the Brown community gathered virtually on Wednesday, Dec. 17, for an interfaith community service that offered a supportive space for  reflection, remembrance and care following a tragic shooting that killed two Brown students and injured nine others.

In a service that was livestreamed from Sayles Hall on Brown’s campus, Brown University President Christina H. Paxson began the program with a moment of silence and then read Psalm 23, which begins “The Lord is my shepherd.” Other campus faith leaders, students and musicians offered comforting prayers, music and moments of silence from across many spiritual and faith traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

To open and close the service, University Organist Mark Steinbach played music on the hall’s historic Hutchings-Votey pipe organ.