The Guide to Christian Success

Annette Fauci grew up in a Florida before theme parks. Alligator farms and beaches were the main tourist attractions. She and her three siblings were raised in a loving and devoted, solidly Christian family. Her mother, a Belgian nurse, escaped the Nazi devastation of Europe after World War II to pursue her postgraduate education in America and proudly became a citizen. Her father, a Navy man and classic all-American boy, grew up in an impoverished coal mining town and pursued his dream of becoming a mechanical engineer. He entered his field at the most exciting time in American history for engineering, during the space race. More importantly, they took their children to Church every Sunday, sent them to Christian schools, and taught them to love God. In the turbulent 1970’s, amid triumphant moon launches, Watergate hearings, a devastating recession, feminist “supermom” hype, and the legalization of abortion, Annette married Charles Fauci and together they struggled as they raised their oldest three children. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, Annette became a successful businesswoman. She owned and managed an accounting and income tax small business, became an Enrolled Agent to represent her clients’ interests, and encountered the capricious will of the IRS. Charles and Annette added three more children. Later, when they began to experience empty nest syndrome, they fostered thirteen more. They also found it more difficult to fight the immorality of American culture growing increasingly at odds with their Christian values. After the millennia changed, Annette joined the Secular Discalced Carmelite Order to draw closer to Christ through engaging in Christian studies on a more intensely spiritual level. Annette’s dynamic, solidly Christian family background and education provided the backdrop against which she experienced the betrayal of Christian values in the prevailing moral challenges of the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. Her life experiences are familiar to many of us who have struggled to maintain Christian values in a world that has rapidly developed into a predatorial vortex of immoral political agenda and mainstream media defamation of the Christian lifestyle. Now retired, she pursues her dream of writing books. In a time where there seems to be little moral direction left in this world, she shares with us the practical wisdom she has gained over her lifetime, providing us with insight and sensible solutions to the moral complexities that Christians face in these days of the Great Corruption.