George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney led attendees in a Prayer of Blessing for the year.
Mary Foley, CEO St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney.
A traditional Aboriginal Smoking Ceremony to rid the land of bad spirits and cleanse and heal the area was performed by Uncle Max Ulo.
Sr Elizabeth Dodds RSC (Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Charity), Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP and NSW Health Minister, The Hon. John Hatzistergos were members of the official party.
Sr Elizabeth Dodds RSC presented Mary Foley with a framed copy of the original Crown Land Grant awarded to the first Trustees in 1855 for the erection of the first St Vincent's Hospital on the Darlinghurst site.
Mark Hales, SV&MHS Director of Mission and Kerry Stubbs, Executive Director, St Vincent's Hospital, presented a narrative about the Sisters of Charity and St Vincent's.
The Sesquicentenary Choir.
Governor of New South Wales, Prof Marie Bashir AC is the Patron of the Sesquicentenary.
The NSW Irish Pipe Band performed during the ceremony.
Members of the Sisters of Charity with CEO Mary Foley (front row seated 2nd fron left) SV&MHS Chairman Nicholas Curtis (front right) and former chairmen Peter Jospeh (back row 5th from left) and Jim Dominguez (back row, 7th from left).