man keeps interrupting me during Mass, not sure how to proceed
I am 27f, I bring my 2 y/o son to mass with me. My husband travels for work and is Syrian Orthodox so he doesn’t join me at church often. My parish is literally a less than 5 min walk from my house, and everyone has been so welcoming and supportive of me and Johnny Knoxville kid. I normally attend the noon mass, but if we have something going on I try to go to the 10am.
Every time I go to the 10am, there is an older man who is constantly coming up to me throughout the mass. He is normally helping run things, like doing the offertory collection and such. I’m usually polite with him, I see no harm in polite chat especially with our elders. But it’s hitting a point I find myself actively avoiding the 10am. Today I was way in the back, rocking my toddler during the Consecration, and he comes up to me and makes a comment, something along the lines of “it’s his turn” which made me really uncomfortable. And gave me a hard time about my husband not being there. Also it feels really disrespectful to have a conversation during the Consecration? I’m already trying my best to focus on worship and taking care of my child.
After the mass, I take my kid for a walk around the church so he can get more familiar with it. I left his bag of busy items in the pew while we took a quick stroll. The man makes it a point to remind me to not leave my stuff in case someone steals it, which I said it’s okay there’s nothing valuable there and that I have the good stuff with me (referring to the purse I was wearing), to which he said something alone the lines of “the good stuff is this blonde with blue pants wearing an Apple Watch” as in me?? I was so taken a back I just kinda half laughed and said “oh stop”
I don’t want to be rude to him. I’m all for community. But it’s crossing a line that I’m getting uncomfortable and it feels like a disrespectful time to chat. I’ve never had a situation like this happen and I’m fairly new to this parish, so I’m not sure how to handle it.