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.
In North America, summer is often fixed as the period from the summer solstice (June 20 or 21, depending on the year) to the fall equinox (September 22 or 23, again depending on the year). Therefore, Sept. 22 was the last day of summer and the beginning of the 2010 autumnal equinox, which officially began at 11:09 p.m. EST., the full moon having peaked the following morning at 5:17 a.m. EST which marked it as the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.