Преподобный Феодорит, просветитель Кольский = Venerable Theodoret the enlightener of Kola = Pyhittäjä Feodorit, Kuolan valistaja = Aerverdige Feodorit, Kolas opplyser / [под редакцией епископа Митрофана (Баданина)]. - Санкт-Петербург ; Североморск : Ладан, 2017.

16 A Short Hagiography of the Venerable Theodoret decision to tonsure the boy and name him Theodoret after only a year. What might at first sight have seemed undue haste did not in the least undermine the firm basis of the monastic rules, which serve to form in each monk a man of in ner prayerfulness and are aimed at the spiritual creation of “ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God” (1 Cor. 4 ,1). The whole long life of the great elder bears witness to his successful accom plishment of the great task of wisely and gradually educating “a new creature in Christ”, of understanding that the main task of monastic life, on which time should not be spared, is to over come himself and his “old man”, in order to gain the grace of the Holy Spirit and “put on the newman, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Eph. 4, 24). For 18 years the monk Theodoret lived in complete and unbro ken obedience to his teacher, the elder Zosima. He then passed twelve years in silent contemplation of God in the Lappish wilder ness, followed by many years in the wilderness around the Cyril- Belozersky Monastery gaining the great knowledge of the Hesy- chasts. Only when he had gained the grace of the Holy Spirit and en tered into the spiritual power of “a perfect man, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4, 13) did the monk Theo doret pour out his blessed deeds on this parched, thirsting land. By now he was 45, and only brief entries in the Chronicles convey to us