A few years ago, when Fr. Jonathan Meyer, a National Preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, gave a talk at a men’s conference about the Stations of the Eucharist and it was shared online, it reached 900,000 views on YouTube. Now, his highly-anticipated bestseller, The Stations of the Eucharist is available for pre-order, along with a companion booklet. In conjunction, Dynamic Catholic is offering a free Holy Week Retreat on The Stations of the Eucharist. When you sign up, you will receive links to videos by Fr. Meyer.
The book is 151 pages in length, and a color image accompanies each station. It is suitable for personal and public devotion.
In this interview, Father Meyer shared his thoughts about the life-changing impact of his new book.
When people think of Stations, they often think of Stations of the Cross. Describe what the Stations of the Eucharist entail.
When you think about a station, like a train station, it’s a stop along a journey. The Stations of the Eucharist are stops along the way from Genesis to Revelation, fourteen biblical reflections that help us understand the Mass as a sacrifice.
As Catholics, we have this limp and we have this idea that “I don’t know Scripture.” (When people hear about the Stations of the Eucharist, they think) “I actually know these passages, I know more than I think I know.” You’ve heard these passages one thousand times, but you haven’t looked at it this way before, as in the case with Abraham and Isaac.”
It started with a talk that I gave at the Palm Beach men’s conference back in 2023. That is the first time that the Stations of the Eucharist really went viral. I’ve been promoting and encouraging and teaching that ever since in a variety of ways. It went viral on a third-party YouTube channel, and this gave it its fame. It gave me confidence that there is more to this than just a talk at a men’s conference. A man in his eighties came up to me (and said), “I’ve gone to daily Mass for sixty years and I didn’t know the Mass was a sacrifice.”
Thanks be to God, and the opening (of The Stations of the Eucharist) talks about this, the Mass has so many things like music, readings, and so on. We are not just in the presence of Jesus and we not just there to receive Him in Holy Communion, and there might be times we don’t receive Him in Holy Communion. We are genuinely, truly present in our own redemption. We are present at the only one sacrifice which is our salvation. Those are fruits of a well celebrated Mass.
How is your book different from your talks on the Stations of the Eucharist?
The book goes deeper into theology, has more Scripture, and is more fleshed out. There are a full introduction and conclusion that give the theology of the Mass. Each chapter has a takeaway and virtue, how you can live the ideal of this station in your own life. One of the goals of the book is that it would be genuinely an encounter and help people live an authentic Eucharistic spirituality.
How have you seen that a deeper understanding of the Blessed Sacrament transforms hearts?
The Blessed Sacrament is Jesus, and there is only one that can change and transform hearts and that is God Himself. There is no surer way to encounter the Lord than through the Mass and the Most Blessed Sacrament.
How do the Stations of the Eucharist relate to our lives?
Every single one of us in our own life has struggle, trial, loneliness, frustration, anxiety, and we find all of that in Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross. The Stations of the Eucharist help us to understand that Mass is the Cross and the Resurrection. The Stations of the Eucharist help us to understand our sacrifice, our sufferings, our struggles. We are not abandoned in this; we have a place — to take our lives and unite them to His.
The book is really intended to be a journey, to be an experience, to transform the reader to not just understand content but to really embrace the Mass as sacrifice. I really do think that this concept of really going through a deep biblical journey can be transformative.
As we prepare to celebrate Holy Thursday, in what ways will your book awaken the faithful again to the power, intimacy, and life-changing reality of Jesus present among us?
Holy Thursday is part of the Triduum and, in fact part of our Lord’s passion because it is the same reality. It’s intentional, isn’t it, that when we read the Passion on Palm Sunday or Good Friday, that it begins with the Last Supper narrative. The Church is teaching us that what happens on Holy Thursday happens on Good Friday, so understanding that the sacrifice and offering that happens at the Last Supper leads us to Good Friday and ultimately to an empty tomb.
How is the Holy Eucharist the greatest love story of all time?
The Eucharist is the Cross. Every Mass is Calvary and there is no greater love than God giving Himself unreservedly to His people. So, the Eucharist is the greatest love story ever.
I was born in 1976 and my understanding of the Eucharist and the predominant teaching about the Eucharist at that point was communion. There was a great emphasis on reception of Communion and how we become communion. There was a great emphasis during that era of catechesis. Thanks be to God, things began to shift through John Paul II and Pope Benedict toward Adoration and the Real Presence. The greatest shift in the Eucharistic Revival is the emphasis on the theology of presence. It is an opportunity for us to shift and look at the Eucharist as sacrifice. So, after thirty some years of communion and thirty some years of presence, there is a shift to sacrifice.
This is something that was not emphasized even in seminary. The Mass as an efficacious offering that I want to attach something to has been lost. Ask a parish secretary how many people are coming in and asking for Masses to be offered.
How do you use your YouTube presence to lead souls to the Holy Eucharist?
This is the sixth-year anniversary, March 17 is when America shut down. We decided to go online as a parish (at that time). All Saints We Are One has clearly been a great way for us to share catechesis and also a great way to share prayers and devotions.
Is there anything else that you’d like to share with readers?
Buy the book, encourage the book, love the book, share the book. Matthew Kelly says that the right book at the right time changes people’s lives. One of my hopes is that this book gets in the hands of fallen away Catholics, that it brings our protestant brothers and sisters [to understand] this, that it strengthens priestly and religious vocations, that it unites families and brings them back to the Lord. I pray an ongoing novena for this.
Father Meyer will be the keynote speaker at the Highway to Heaven 2026 event to be held on May 16 in Massena, NY and preach on the Holy Eucharist and Adoration.
Father Jonathan Meyer was ordained a priest in 2003 for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. After his ordination he served as the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese. He has also served at several parishes, prior to being named as the pastor of four parishes in Dearborn County, IN. He maintains a presence on the internet with weekly homilies and other teachings. From 2022–2024, he served as a National Preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival. He published his first book in 2026 entitled Stations of the Eucharist. In his spare time, he coaches Track and Cross Country; he has coached at public schools for the past 15 years.
Author’s note: Portions of this article were published at Catholic Exchange.
