Eagles come to Green Bay after beating Packers twice last season

Philadelphia (6-2) at Green Bay (5-2-1)

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BetMGM line: Packers by 2 1/2

Against the spread: Eagles 5-3; Packers 3-5

Series record: Packers lead 28-20

Last meeting: Eagles won 22-10 in NFC wild-card playoff game at Philadelphia on Jan. 12.

Last week: Eagles were off last week after beating New York Giants 38-20 at home on Oct. 26; Packers lost 16-13 at home to Carolina.

Eagles offense: overall (24), rush (19), pass (25), scoring (10)

Eagles defense: overall (23), rush (19), pass (17), scoring (19)

Packers offense: overall (8), rush (16), pass (8), scoring (11)

Packers defense: overall (5), rush (5), pass (9), scoring (8)

Turnover differential: Eagles plus-4; Packers even

LB Zack Baun is one of only three players in the NFL along with Detroit's Jack Campbell and Miami's Tyrel Dodson to have at least 60 tackles, three sacks, one forced fumble and one takeaway this season. Pro Football Focus gives him the top pass-rushing grade of all NFL linebackers. Baun delivered big performances in Philadelphia's two wins over Green Bay last season. He had two sacks in the Eagles' regular-season victory in Brazil and had an interception in the playoff matchup.

TE Luke Musgrave is going to have to help the Packers pick up the slack now that they've lost Tucker Kraft, who was having a Pro Bowl-caliber season before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament against Carolina. Kraft had been leading the Packers in yards receiving (489) and touchdown catches (six). Musgrave has nine catches for 88 yards this season. He was selected in the second round during the same 2023 draft in which Kraft was taken in the third round.

Packers passing game vs. Eagles pass defense: Jordan Love completed only half his pass attempts in a season-opening loss to the Eagles last season before leaving with a knee injury late in the game. With injuries decimating Green Bay's offensive line and receiving group, Love threw three interceptions without a touchdown pass in the Packers' playoff loss at Philadelphia. Love will need to be better for the Packers to win Monday. He failed to throw a touchdown pass in a game for the first time this season against Carolina.

Eagles: C Cam Jurgens (knee) has been ruled out. CB Jakorian Bennett (pectoral), G/C Willie Lampkin (knee/ankle) and OLB Nolan Smith (triceps) are questionable.

Packers: Kraft is out for the season. DL Lukas Van Ness (foot) will miss a fourth straight game. CB Nate Hobbs (knee) also has been ruled out. WR Matthew Golden (shoulder), OT Zach Tom (back), WR Dontayvion Wicks (calf) and WR Savion Williams (foot) are questionable. Wicks has missed two straight games.

The Eagles have beaten the Packers three straight times, including the 34-29 win at Brazil and the wild-card playoff game last season during their run to a Super Bowl title. Barkley had 132 yards from scrimmage (109 rushing, 23 receiving) and three touchdowns against Green Bay in the regular-season game, and he rushed for 119 yards in the playoff matchup. The Eagles also beat the Packers 40-33 in Philadelphia in 2022. Green Bay's most recent win in this series was a 30-16 triumph at home during the pandemic season of 2020.

The Eagles enter Week 10 as one of four teams in the NFC with a 6-2 record. The only other NFC team with two losses or fewer is Green Bay, at 5-2-1. This is the fourth straight year in which Philadelphia has won at least six of its first eight games. ... The Eagles ran for a season-high 276 yards — the second-best single-game total by any NFL team this season — against the Giants in their most recent game. ... Eagles QB Jalen Hurts has 15 TD passes and only one INT this season. He has 20 combined TDs (15 passing, five receiving) to rank third in the NFL, Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes and the Los Angeles Rams' Matthew Stafford. ... Eagles WR DeVonta Smith is averaging 10.7 yards per target this season. The only receiver with a higher average is Seattle's Jaxon Smith-Njigba (12.0). Smith's 588 yards receiving rank eighth in the NFL. ... Eagles TE Dallas Goedert has seven TD catches, putting him in a tie for second in the league. Davante Adams of the Rams has eight. ... Eagles OT Lane Johnson hasn't allowed any sacks or quarterback hits this season. ... This marks the third time in four years that the Packers have faced the defending Super Bowl champions in Lambeau Field. Green Bay won the other two matchups, 24-12 over the Los Angeles Rams in 2022 and 27-19 over the Kansas City Chiefs in 2023. ... The Packers are trying to bounce back after losing to Carolina as a 13-point favorite. According to BetMGM, that was the first time the Packers had lost as a double-digit favorite since falling to Arizona when they were favored by 13 1/2 in 2018. ... Packers RB Josh Jacobs has 10 TD runs this season. The only NFL player with more TD runs is Indianapolis' Jonathan Taylor, with 12. Jacobs has an NFL-leading 25 TD runs since 2024. He's the first Packer to have at least 10 TD runs in back-to-back seasons since Jim Taylor did it in three straight years from 1960-62. ... Packers S Xavier McKinney had both a sack and an interception against Carolina. The sack and interception came in a span of three plays. ... Packers DE Micah Parsons has 44 quarterback pressures this season, according to Next Gen Stats. The only player with more is Detroit's Aidan Hutchinson, with 46. ... Packers K Brandon McManus has gone just 4 of 7 on field-goal attempts in two games since returning from a quadriceps injury that sidelined him for four games.

Kraft's injury is going to require Love's other playmakers to step up. That means fantasy owners who have Packers WR Romeo Doubs might want to make sure they're starting him. Doubs was targeted 10 times against Carolina and responded with seven catches for 91 yards, both season highs. One concern with Doubs is that he doesn't have a TD in four straight games, but he's certainly capable of scoring. He had three TDs Sept. 28 in a 40-all tie with Dallas.

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Green Bay Packers' Josh Jacobs runs past Pittsburgh Steelers' Patrick Queen for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Green Bay Packers' Jordan Love throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, right, hands off to Eagles running back Saquon Barkley (26) who runs for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

MIAMI (AP) — Good Friday is a unique — and uniquely solemn — day in the Christian calendar.

It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus, ahead of what’s a central tenet of faith for believers — his resurrection two days later on Easter Sunday, according to the Gospels.

This year, it falls on April 3 for Catholics and Protestants, and April 10 for Orthodox Christians.

Across Christian denominations, Good Friday services are unlike those on most other days. They often include centuries-old, once-a-year traditions both during the liturgy and out in the streets, where elaborate processions and other rituals of fervent popular piety are held.

While Catholics gather, it’s the only day without an actual Mass, because there's no sacrament of the Eucharist, which is the transformation of bread and wine into Jesus' body and blood according to the church. Orthodox Christians don’t celebrate the Eucharist either on what they call Great and Holy Friday.

Most mainline Protestant denominations and Evangelicals also hold unique services, like the Lutheran devotion focused on the biblical accounts of Jesus' last words on the cross, though they are not as strict on fasting as Catholics and Orthodox Christians.

Church services tend to last more than an hour, usually starting at 3 p.m., when tradition says Jesus died. But even though it’s not a day of obligation, and it’s a workday in the United States, churches tend to be packed.

“The time leading up to Good Friday is a big reflection on sacrifice — what he did for me and what I am doing in return,” said Manuel León, 22.

A member of Miami’s Corpus Christi Catholic Church youth group, he will carry a grimly realistic statue of Jesus crucified in procession through a hip central neighborhood on Good Friday.

“Pushing that statue from the back and seeing how torn up he is, what he did for us really becomes real,” León added.

Some of the most ancient liturgical practices define Good Friday service for Catholics, said the Rev. John Baldovin, a professor of historical and liturgical theology at Boston College.

“The most solemn days tend to retain the oldest ceremonies,” he added, including as example the fact that the priests and ministers prostrate themselves in front of the altar at the beginning of the service.

Another ancient tradition is the extensive prayers of the faithful, interspersed with genuflections, which today include intentions as varied as praying for the pope, for the Jewish people, and for those who do not believe in God.

Up until Holy Week reforms introduced by the Vatican in the 1950s, Communion wasn’t distributed on Good Friday, though now it is with hosts consecrated a day earlier on Holy Thursday, Baldovin said.

But the highlight of the ceremony is the adoration of the cross, which in many cases is held up near the altar as the faithful line up to kiss it or touch it in reverence.

Among the earliest documents of this practice is the diary of pilgrim who in the 4th century went from what’s today Spain to Jerusalem, Baldovin said. There, at the present-day Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a bishop held up the cross for several hours as the faithful venerated it.

Life-sized statues of Jesus crucified, the weeping Virgin Mary, and representations of scenes from the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus' torture and death on a cross are carried in large processions in different parts of the world.

Some of the oldest and most awe-inspiring are in southern Spain’s Seville, where tens of thousands of people watch much-venerated images of Jesus and Mary being carried in hourslong processions throughout Holy Week.

“Not all of us have the ability to look at the sky and feel fulfilled. Others like me need the images,” said Manolo Gobea.

He moved from Seville to Miami three decades ago and now heads the brotherhood that organizes the Good Friday procession starting from Corpus Christi church and winding its way through the graffiti-splashed neighborhood of Wynwood.

As the main, Seville-made statues exit the palm-fringed church, they’re carried over intricate carpets made of colored sawdust and flowers. That’s a nod to another tradition that’s perhaps most exuberantly followed in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, where miles of these carpets are created for Holy Week — twice on Good Friday.

“On Good Friday, we feel the pain of Mary, Jesus’ pain, his surrender for love,” said Silvia Armira, as she prepared the carpet drawings for the procession in Miami, where she arrived from Guatemala in the 1990s. “It’s the great love of God, who gave up his only son for us.”

Solemn and popular rituals on Good Friday vary from the pope’s traditional “way of the cross” in Rome to a trek to the adobe sanctuary of Chimayo in New Mexico to self-flagellation and even crucifixion in the Philippines.

For many priests, they are all opportunities to take faith out of church and into streets to evangelize — and to point out that the gruesome death on the cross isn’t the end of the story.

“Our procession is a cry to the world — ‘get out, look at what is the way, the truth, the life,’” said the Rev. José Luis Menéndez.

“May your entire attitude be a living prayer,” the Cuban-born, Spanish-raised pastor at Corpus Christi in Miami told more than 100 faithful at the last rehearsal for this year’s procession.

Carefully watching over the SUV-sized float covered in silver-plated ornaments, flower vases and candlesticks, Gobea said the main appeal of Good Friday celebrations is that they lead from death to Easter joy.

“To the weeping Mary, we put flowers, we sing hymns, and that’s because we know how it ends — which is the resurrection,” he said.

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Corpus Christi Catholic Church members participate in a rehearsal for their Good Friday procession Monday, March 23, 2026, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Corpus Christi Catholic Church youth members look up at a statue of Jesus crucified during a rehearsal for their Good Friday procession, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Members of the Corpus Christi Catholic Church push a large float that will carry the Lady of Hope Macarena during a rehearsal of their Good Friday procession Monday, March 23, 2026, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Corpus Christi Catholic Church members push a large float that will carry the Lady of Hope Macarena during a rehearsal for their Good Friday procession, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Corpus Christi Catholic Church youth group members push a float with Jesus during a rehearsal for their Good Friday procession Monday, March 23, 2026, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)