The Great Awakenings, so far as I understand, had very little to do with Catholicism; the dominant forms of Christianity at that time in U.S. history were a quasi-deist mainline Protestantism at the top of the social ladder and a hodge-podge of Puritan/Anabaptist leftovers for everyone else. (Of course, there were some Catholics, too, but Catholicism didn’t really gain a substantial foothold until the tidal wave of lower-class European immigrants in the mid-1800s.)

The point I was trying (perhaps unsuccessfully) to make is that, at the time, there was widespread spiritual malaise and indifference, and the Great Awakenings were a needed shot of adrenaline to the spiritual lives of many Americans.

I would LOVE to see the evangelical church, of which I am a part (somewhat by default), return to a celebration of the Eucharist similar to that of the Anglo-Catholic church. (I believe I implied as much in this post.) When we share the body and blood of Christ, we not only share in his Life, present in the bread and wine; we also celebrate the ongoing Incarnation present in the living Body, the Church. That, as you said, is one of the most (if not THE most) spiritually renewing things we can do as Christians.

see:
http://pauliscatholic.com/2009/07/episode-8-paul-on-eucharistic-sacrifice-and-transubstantion/

http://shmuelson.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/proclaiming-the-l-rds-death/

In the peace of God’s Messiah,
Steven