Vocation (poem)

Vocation is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a vocation.

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The poem describes a child's longing for the freedom he sees in the lives of those around him. When the gong sounds ten in the morning, he walks to his school and sees the hawker crying "Bangles, crystal bangles!" and he wishes he could be a hawker. At four in the afternoon, while coming back from school, he sees the gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls his mother sends him to bed and he sees the watchman through the window and he wishes he could be a watchman.

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Vocation

A vocation (from Latin vocātiō, meaning "a call, summons") is an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which she/he is suited, trained, or qualified. Though now often used in non-religious contexts, the meanings of the term originated in Christianity.

Senses

Use of the word "vocation" before the sixteenth century referred firstly to the "call" by God to an individual, or calling of all humankind to salvation, particularly in the Vulgate, and more specifically to the "vocation" to the priesthood, or to the religious life, which is still the usual sense in Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism recognizes marriage, single life, religious, and ordained life as the four vocations.Martin Luther, followed by John Calvin, placed a particular emphasis on vocations, or divine callings, as potentially including most secular occupations, though this idea was by no means new.

Calvinism developed complex ideas about different types of vocations of the first type, connected with the concepts of Predestination, Irresistible grace, and the elect. There are the vocatio universalis, the vocatio specialis, only extended to some. There were also complex distinctions between internal and external, and the "vocatio efficax" and "inefficax" types of callings.Hyper-Calvinism, unusually, rejects the idea of a "universal call", a vocation, to repent and believe, held by virtually all other Christian groups.

Vocation (band)

Vocation is a Swedish jazz vocal ensemble founded in 2000. Accompanied either by a quartet, a big band or just a cappella, Vocation's music is a modern six harmony vocal jazz in a traditional form. The Choice of the Audience Award was given to Vocation at the International Vocal Group Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 2002. Vocation shared the stage with Al Jarreau at the Pescara Jazz Festival in Italy in 2005, and with Povel Ramel at the memorial concert for Monica Zetterlund in Stockholm the same year. Vocation performed at the concert tribute of Povel Ramel in 2007, the group along with Mikael Ramel, Svante Thuresson, Stephan Lundin and Monica Dominique.

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