Subscribe to our Question of the Week: Question: What does Messiah mean?. Answer: Messiah comes from the Hebrew word mashiach and means âanointed oneâ or âchosen one.â The Greek equivalent is the word Christos or, in English, Christ. The name âJesus Christâ is the same as âJesus the Messiah.â In biblical times, anointing someone with oil was a sign that God was consecrating or setting apart that person for a particular role.
When does summer start? Monday, June 1, marks the first day of meteorological summer, but when does summer officially begin? If you look at a 2015 calendar, you might spot that summer begins on June 21st this year. This uses the astronomical seasons, based on the solstices and equinoxes that occur through the year. Seasons occur due to the fact that the Earth is tilted from its axis by 23.5 degrees.
June 20-21 is one of two solstices, days when the rays of the sun directly strike one of the two tropical latitude lines. June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and simultaneously heralds the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere. In 2014, the summer solstice occurs and summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on Friday, June 21 at 6:51 a.m. EDT, which is 10:51 UTC.