Though he ends up lending a hand to a wedding party in trouble at Cana in this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus is not eager to perform miracles because, he says, “my hour has not yet come.” A 102-year-old New Jersey teacher does not feel the time has yet come for retirement, so Agnes Zhelesnik continues to work . . .

In this Sunday’s first reading, Isaiah speaks out “for Jerusalem’s sake.” He “will not be silent . . . will not be quiet.” In his last State of the Union address, President Obama made an impassioned case against religious bigotry . . .

The psalmist encourages the people to proclaim the Lord’s “marvelous deeds to all the nations.” Fortune magazine went a little too far in proclaiming the accomplishments of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with a depiction of him as the Hindu deity Lord Vishnu on the cover . . .

Likely the wedding at Cana featured in this Sunday’s gospel account of Jesus’ first public miracle, as many weddings before and since, involved a ceremonial first kiss between bride and groom. Time Out Tel Aviv, a Jewish magazine, responded to the nation’s Education Ministry barring of a novel depicting an Israeli-Palestinian love story . . .

A Facebook post making the rounds consists of a row of wine bottles in a store with a sign above them that says, “Water.” The comment below the photo reads: “Jesus was here.”

“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”

The State Department estimates 2 million women and children are victims of human trafficking every year. There are more slaves today than any other time in human history: Human trafficking is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the world, second only to drug trafficking.