"in order to be faithful to such a grace one must prepare to suffer"

"And so we must learn, from the continual setbacks that—from the point at which Jesus Christ was entrusted to his protection—put Saint Joseph to the test, that one cannot preserve such a [(ce)] deposit without pain, and that in order to be faithful to such a [(sa)] grace one must be prepared to suffer."

"Car c’est ainsi qu’il nous faut apprendre, par les traverses continuelles qui ont exercé saint Joseph depuis que Jésus-Christ est mis en sa gardé, qu’on ne peut conserver ce dépôt sans peine, et que pour être fidèle à sa grâce, il faut se preparer à souffrir."

     Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, "Panégyrique de saint Joseph" (19 March 1656), Bossuet:  oraisons funèbres panégyriques, ed. L’Abbé Bernard Velat, Biblioteque de la Pleiade 33 (Paris:  Librairie Gallimard, 1950), 376 (360-384), translation mine.  Bossuet then procedes to enumerate some of the ways that Joseph and Mary were, though poor, far better off than in the wake of their fiat.  This sermon is headed by 1 Tim 6:20:  "Depositum custodi. | Gardez le dépôt", "guard what has been entrusted to you."