Your Eminence Archbishop Spyridon of America,
Your Grace, Bishop Nicholas of Amissos, chosen shepherd of the Carpatho-Russian flock in America,
Most Honorable Presbyters and clergy,
Beloved and blessed children in the Lord,

On our visit to the United States, as Ecumenical Patriarch and your spiritual father, we are nearly overcome by joy, as we behold you, the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox in America, the much beloved children of our Modesty.  How can we express our thankfulness, for your words, your chanting, your demonstrations of reverence and of love?  These show the feeling of true sons and daughters, which nourish your hearts with love for the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople, the Great Church of Christ.
We glorify our All-Merciful God, who has granted us and our honorable companions to come and worship in this all-venerable and sacred Church, dedicated to Christ our Savior, the Son and Word of God.  We thank you from the bottom of our heart for your warm reception, your bountiful hospitality and your words of genuine good will.
In this place, we behold you as a local Orthodox Church in the Diaspora, well organized and active. You have received many blessings in this prosperous and hospitable country.  You know well the difficulties and trials which your forebears endured in their native lands.  You know the history of your people, and their struggle to be true to their faith. We recall with much emotion, how they returned to their Mother Orthodox Church, and we glorify the Lord for all these things, and for the wonderful ways He saves His people.  Some sixty years ago, there was great sacrifice and many hardships for the Carpatho-Russian flock, and how providential it was, that the Lord provided an able and righteous shepherd, in the person of Metropolitan Orestes, of blessed memory.  Those were difficult days, but your spiritual forebears did not shrink from their task.
For our Church is both ascetic and martyric.  The martyrdom of blood is not essentially different than the martyrdom for the sake of conscience.  If you investigate the history of the local Orthodox Churches, you will see that most of them have lived under persecution and oppression, and only a few of them have experienced normal freedoms and comforts.
Many times, the martyric mind-set of the Orthodox faithful has preserved the faith untainted over the centuries.  Other times, in the judgments as only God knows, certain Churches have lost their traditional faith, at least for a season. In the experience of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox faithful, you rediscovered your spiritual roots in another land.
This rediscovery occurs in every generation of your beloved Diocese, in the struggle for a temperate spiritual life, one of repentance, and prayer.  You rediscover your faith through the study of Holy Scripture and the writings of the Holy Fathers.  Through your participation in the worship of the Church and the Holy Mysteries, all you become capable of the uncreated Divine Grace.  And it is Divine Grace which forms and nurtures the pure Orthodox ethos within the believer.  This same ethos is sometimes visible, in the faces of Orthodox Christians, by the grace of our Savior Christ, Who was transfigured on Mount Tabor.
We believe that Orthodox Christians of the tradition, can recognize the difference between their own ethos and lifestyle, and those which are not.  It is strange indeed, that people who come to this country from abroad, and who associate with their fellow believers of the same spiritual mind-set, should adopt non-Orthodox forms of worship.  This can mean nothing less than an absence of an Orthodox spiritual world-view in this first place.
That is why the Ecumenical Patriarchate and our Modesty personally, take such pride on the Carpatho-Russian faithful of America.  You, who were separated from your own for so many centuries, in the early years of this century found your way home to the Mother Church.  You understood that Orthodoxy is not addressed only to certain ethnic groups in certain geographical locations.  It is a way of life that relates to every human person.  It is the way of salvation.  It is the pure faith and spiritual mind-set of the Apostles, the holy Fathers, the countless Righteous men and women and all the Holy Martyrs.
Orthodoxy is not just a belief system with certain teachings, which have been formulated in far-off lands.  It is life in the Holy Spirit.  It is a reality lived in Him and in fellowship with the Saints, who constantly intercede to the Lord on our behalf.  It is communion with the Lord of Glory.
The Carpatho-Russian Orthodox in America represent a thriving and growing community dedicated to the preservation of Orthodox tradition, customs, and practice.  Your witness of return and faithfulness to the Ecumenical Patriarchate is an example of how you have followed in the footsteps of your pious ancestors. 
Under the leadership of our beloved brother in Christ, His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Amissos, we know that the future progress of this Holy Diocese will be bright and prosperous.  His Grace has the highest trust and confidence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.  In a few days, he will Orthodox Bishops to the forthcoming meeting of the Roman Catholic Bishops in the western hemisphere, at the Vatican.  We know that the service he gives to the Church at-large, has the same qualities of faithfulness, service and love that he gives even to the smallest parish.
And so, beloved faithful of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of our Ecumenical Throne, we convey to you our paternal and Patriarchal blessings.  And we pray that our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is our Savior and the Savior of the World, through the prayers of His All-Holy Mother  the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, protect and keep you in the purity of the Orthodox Faith.
May His grace and infinite mercy be with you all.  Amen.