"...so let's not treat the Real Presence in the Eucharist as equivalent to His presence in the assembly".

That's my point exactly.  By making the focus of the Eucharist into an exercise of religiosity, we fail to recognize the body as Paul admonished the Corinthians in 1 Cor 11:29.  We are called to worship God the Father through Jesus (as the Body of Christ) in the power of the Spirit.  We have made sin a matter of personal failings rather than those actions and attitudes that tear the Body of Christ apart.

Jay Edward, I am not implying anything about your faith or the devotions that strengthen it.  What I am trying to say is that certain theological positions and (especially) pastoral practices have weakened the Church.  What may have worked well at one time is simply not up to the storms of this post modern age.