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Real Presence is presence of Christ as body, soul and divinity in the Eucharist, which ceases to be bread and wine. In other words, "this is my body" and "my flesh is food indeed" are meant literally. Your belief in purely spiritual presence everywhere is something different. Please call things honestly what they are.

The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

All this is a part of the belief in the Real Presence: the Eucharist profits the spirit and not the flesh of the one receiving it, and the words of Christ -- even those you deny -- are spirit and life.

The Lord's Supper is a memorial which exhibits and glorifies the grace of God mercifully given to His own. It is a sign and seal of God's promise in the New Covenant. The bread and wine are representative of his body and blood which He shed for those who believe in Him.

Christ is spiritually present in the Lord's Supper. The bread and wine do not change form which is a pagan superstition leading to veneration of the material world. It's no coincidence that the church which believes in this pathetic alchemy also believes in the magic of rituals and relics and holy water.

Rome is mired in the carnal while Christ is spiritually-discerned. Roman Catholics wrongly believe we cannot experience Christ unless we in ingest Him with our physical mouth. What anti-Scriptural lunacy.

"And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." -- Luke 22:19-20

Paul understood what Christ meant. Here he teaches others...

"For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." -- 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Get that? We "show the Lord's death." We remember His sacrifice. We share in His suffering. We rejoice in His triumph over death for our sake.

We are not cannibals. We do not digest Him. We receive Him spiritually.

And that is enough for Christians. Rome's hunger for sacrilege and superstition is insatiable.