The word of the day is “fear.”  We may have a rosy picture of the life of the first believers who were filled with the Holy Spirit, bold in the proclamation of the Gospel, united in a common life, and fearless in the face of arrest, imprisonment, and death.  Yet, in today’s reading of Acts 5:1-11, we hear a note of sobering realism.  Luke reports the first instance of troubles in the community.  As a divine punishment for cheating and lying, a couple falls dead at the feet of the apostles.  Luke, the writer of Acts, summarizes the somber response of the faithful, “So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things” (OSB 5:11).…