​​ On the 24th July, 2015, in the Chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, Friar Luke Fonkalsrud professed his simple vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, into the hands of the provincial of the 'St. Bonaventure' province, Fr. Michael Zielke, taking the Religious name Br. Bernard Mary Fonkalsrud OFM Conv. after the great Cistercian Abbot, Mariologist, and Doctor of the Church, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Br. Bernard Mary completed his Novitiate year wit