[the invisib1e hand]

I think a number of Protestants manage to make a "spiritual communion" or something very like it, without knowing it.

Granted, "meaningless" is a broad term. Well, it can be. I actually mean it literally.

A "spiritual" communion -- whatever that is -- is a product of one's imagination. There is nothing objective about it. What does the term even mean?

Holy Communion is down to earth. And it is, because it's real.

It's the coolest, freakiest thing there is. I highly recommend it.

[Iscool]

A "spiritual" communion -- whatever that is -- is a product of one's imagination. There is nothing objective about it. What does the term even mean?

You couldn't be more wrong...Obviously you don't have a Spiritual connection with the Saviour...If you did, you'd know what it is...I've never met Mad Dawg but I know exactly what he's talking about...

Holy Communion is down to earth. And it is, because it's real.

Or, it's not spiritual, it's, fleshy???

[narses]

A "spiritual" communion -- whatever that is -- is a product of one's imagination. There is nothing objective about it. What does the term even mean?

An Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.

I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.

Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as 
if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. 

Amen.

[Steelfish]

Check out Cardinal Henry Newman: Foremost theologian and Anglican convert that created a “theological” earthquake at the time in his conversion to Catholicism and a towering intellectual scholar of his period who said:

Cardinal Newman, 1848: “To me, nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming, as the Mass, said as it is among us. I could attend Mass for ever, and not be tired. It is not a mere form of words, – it is a great action, the greatest action there can be on earth. It is not the invocation only, but, if I dare to use the word, the evocation of the Eternal. He becomes present on the altar in flesh and blood, before whom angels bow and devils tremble.”

[Mad Dawg]

A "spiritual" communion -- whatever that is -- is a product of one's imagination. There is nothing objective about it. What does the term even mean?

For an attempt at a beginning of an answer, see my: #285.