By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - St. Paul is famously unequivocal in emphasizing just how crucial the reality of the Resurrection is for Christians. Without the Resurrection, he states in 1 Corinthians, the entire Christian message collapses... “For if the dead are not raised,” he writes there, “then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost” (1 Corinthians 15:12-19).