When the Entrance chant is concluded, the priest stands at the chair and, together with the whole gathering, makes the Sign of the Cross. Then he signifies the presence of the Lord to the community gathered there by means of the Greeting.
Yup. That's a pretty good description of how it happens at our parish. I wasn't aware there was a question. 
Please tell me there isn't any real confusion on this ...
I wasn't aware there was a question either. In the churches I go to for Mass during the week, the priests open the Mass either at the altar or the ambo. On Sundays, after censing the altar and the Crucifix, the celebrant opens the Mass at the chair. Never really thought about it until I read the article. Sometimes liturgical noncomforities (if that's a word) are so blatant, they scream at me. (Changing the words to the doxology or even the scripture readings leap to mind.) Others, like this one, pass me right by.
I am growing weary of celebrants who, through ignorance of whatever reason, make up their own rules.
Interesting. I didn't know. I don't think I've ever seen anything but at the chair. Maybe in front of the altar when the priest's chair is pretty far back and hard to see.
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