Confirmation and visions
            QUESTION from Eric on April 16, 2004

Hello: Last Saturday during the Easter Vigil, I was confirmed. I had neglected to do so when I should have when I was younger and then I planned to do it in 1997 and met with a priest but my grandmother became ill and I had to help my mother bring her to dialysis and such and then after my grandmother died I just put it off some more and thought maybe I'd wait until before I got married. Well, I've posted a few posts about my stupid behavior in using a ouija board last June and being harrassed by an evil spirit. I was given the advice that I should finally get Confirmed. My comment here is that ten minutes before I was to be Confirmed, I began seeing religious images. It was very much like dreaming but it was different. I could see the church but then I could also see the color images of the Virgin Mary and what was even stranger, the little boy that I saw next to her wasn't Jesus, but me. Then I saw St. Joseph there too. Then I saw an image of Jesus standing further back, but facing front. Next I saw what looked like Jesus's face radiating from the sky and two angels in flowing garments on either side of the larger than life face. And then it ended. It was very interesting because I have never had anything like this, I have difficulty most of the time trying to conjure up a picture in my mind as I do the Rosary and try to conjure up a mental picture of the scene I'm concentrating on. Then after I was Confirmed, it started to happen again. This time I saw myself as an older boy in my First Communion robe. The gold lines that were on it were clearly noticable, and my grandmother took my hand and we walked away. My granmother and I were very close and she saw apparitions a couple of times in her life. Then I saw my grandfather he had a big smile on his face and I seemed younger and I ran over to him and he mussed up my hair with his hand. He died two years before I was born. Then I saw a quick image of my great grandmother who only saw me as a baby. Then a young woman with brown hair who was beckoning happily to me, I knew who she was even though I didn't immediately recognize her, it was my oldest half-sister who died four years ago. Then I saw a blond young woman and I realized that she was my sister who died at the age of eight three years before I was born. The demon suddenly broke through the silence and began talking to me and the images quickly stopped. The Deacon whom I met with for my studies had suggested that even though the Holy Spirit would come into on my Confirmation I should expect to feel it. I know I wasn't seeing there actual spirits but just images of them and I know that the monster wasn't behind these good images though a couple of times it threw some bad images at me in church or when I've been praying. When I told my mother about this she wondered why I would see my sister who died as a girl as a young woman and was trying to say that maybe it was someone else. My mother then told me about her strange experience which shook her up a little bit. As I and my sponser went forward, she started hearing the loudest bangings and knockings and rappings she ever heard. She said it reverberated throughout the filled church but that nobody else seemed to hear it. They weren't just a steady banging but violent unordered crashes. It lasted for as long as my Confirmation lasted and she couldn't hear the priest who was only about ten feet away. She realized that only she heard the noises and was rather disturbed by them. I assume it was the demon/s who was/were responsible for they did not want me to get Confirmed. The thing is still around and yesterday was the most it "talked" to me since my Confirmation. When I got some bad news that my application for unemployment was rejected, it piped up seeming all excited taking credit for my bad luck and telling me it would never let me get and not to even ask for a hearing. The bad news seemed to give it some extra strength. I am still resolute at getting rid of the things, but I would like your opinion on my visions. And why would I see my sister as an adult when I have only sen pictures of her as a child?