What Does It Mean to Be Charismatic

In the spiritual life, to be "charismatic" means to be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. All baptized Christians receive the Holy Spirit when they are baptized. They also receive the ordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit to the degree to which they are capable of accepting them at that time--wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord. A Christian continues to grow in these gifts throughout his or her life.
  When a person is mature enough to understand, he or she can be instructed about the "extraordinary" gifts of the Spirit--wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, praying and speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues. Then he or she can pray for or be prayed with to receive one or more of the extraordinary gifts that God wishes them to have. This is sometimes called (but not always) the "Baptism in the Holy Spirit".
  The extraordinary gifts are only called "extraordinary" because unlike the ordinary gifts of the Spirit, each person does not receive every extraordinary gift.
  St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11:

 To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one the Spirit gives wisdom in discourse, to another the power to express knowledge. Through the Spirit one receives faith; by the same spirit another is given the gift of healing, and still another miraculous powers. Prophecy is given to one; to another power to distinguish one spirit from another. One receives the gift of tongues, another that of interpretation of tongues. But it is one and the same Spirit who produces all these gifts, distributing them to each as He wills.

  With the Baptism in the Spirit a person also experiences Jesus personally and "hears" the Holy Spirit guiding and directing them each day. A person can have a personal relationship with Jesus and hear the Holy Spirit and not be charismatic. But this is not because they are unable to be but because they have not been taught that the Holy Spirit has an extraordinary gift or gifts that He wants them to have.
  To be "filled with the Holy Spirit" does not mean a person has all the power of the Holy Spirit God has to give. On the contrary, our growth in the power of the Holy Spirit is ongoing until we pass on to eternal life. If you have been given the Holy Spirit through Baptism and then been Baptized in the Holy Spirit, there is always more!
  To conclude--a person is charismatic if he or she has been Baptized, has received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and an extraordinary gift or gifts. All the Apostles and early disciples were charismatic. It's what happened to the Apostles, the disciples and the Blessed Mother on Pentecost. To be charismatic is not a movement or just for certain people. It is ordinary Christianity! It's what God intends for every Christian to be.